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That new Tay smell.
*sniffs* mmmmmhhmmmmmm
New TAY … Socks!
Some explanation might be necessary. New Day are a group of wrestlers that try to force a chant of “New Day [beat] rocks!” with some clapping. The crowd always chants “New Day [beat] sucks!” At some point, someone started joking that people wanted New Day socks. I want New Day socks.PREVIOUSLY, ON THE BOLD AND THE BEAUTAYFUL (with special guest Chris Pratt)
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Police dragging Red out of Trjn’s home.
Red: No! I’ve been set up! I’m not the real killer! It was Trjn! You’re all being played!
Trjn sips tea as Red’s cries fade out.
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Blaghman standing in front of his holiday villa as it burns to the ground.
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A group of TAYbies have gathered for a wake in honour of their fallen friend, Greenius.
The door bursts open. Enter Greenius, covered in dirt, scratches, and fashionable diamond accessories.
CJ: Greenius?! We thought you were dead!
Greenius: I am!
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Liondrive stands before a group of TAYbies.
So you see, it wasn’t old man Jimu at all. It was –
He pulls a sheet off a figure beside him.
All: Old man Jimu?!
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A large group of TAYbies and also Chris Pratt run for their lives as a herd of accidentally unleashed dinosaurs wreak havoc on town.
Pratt: I told you this was a mistake! I told you!
He is picked up and eaten. Someone shrieks.
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In a theatre proudly fronting the new musical Too Many Blaghmen, stage director DC paces back and forth, arms flailing in panic, as ambulance workers move a critically injured Freeze onto a stretcher.
DC: Our star performer is injured and the show opens in two hours! This is an absolute disaster!
A figure steps out from the shadows.
Pixel: Maybe…I can help.
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Rize playing the organ pipes in a jazz ensemble.
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Freeze grabs Nobs by the shoulders and shakes him.
Freeze: It’s me! It’s Freeze! Don’t you remember me?
Nobs: I’m sorry, I…I don’t.
Nurse Transient: I’m afraid he has…amnesia.
Freeze: NOOOOOOOOOOO
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Gingerchris and Pants have started an evil cult dedicated to worshipping seahorses. They meet in an underground chapel lit by seahorse-themed candles.
Pants: And it is arranged?
Gingerchris: It is.
Pants: Most excellent. The time is near.
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Cakesmith throwing all his belongings into a car.
Powalen: If you do this, you’ll never be able to turn back!
Cake gets into the car and rolls down the window.
Cakesmith: Then I guess this is goodbye for good.
Shot of Cakesmith’s car careening over a cliff.
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AND NOW, THE THRILLING CONTINUATION
Good morning y’all.
This sounds awesome. Sucks I missed it.
I’ll always be there for you @dc
me and my amazing singing skillz
I’m hoping against all hope that I have a bit part in this musical. Not even a cameo appearance, I’m just there as some schlub.
You play background tree #3
So who did @trjn kill and pin on me?
Nobody. *sips tea*
Pinning a dead man to a live one… new depths of depravity!
Atleast they’ll know where the body is
ALL HAIL THE SEAHORSE GOD! SEATHULU!
First day at my new job, wish me luck! 😀
You don’t need luck; you’re gonna smash it.
Smashing things on your first day at a new job? Sounds like it might also be your last day.
Unless your job is smashing things. Like, a wrecking ball operator.
Thanks Shane, was a good day!!
My hearing’s a bit dodgy this morning, I’m a bit confused but maybe your new job has strange requirements. I just wished for you to receive a duck in a truck driven by a guy called Buck
You’ve got this! *decisive nod*
Thank you friend! Was very fun, I didn’t even stuff up! 😀
Good luck buddy!
Thanks buddy! Was a very good day, I think your good wishes helped 🙂
Money down for a Fallout 4 collectors edition \o/
2 weeks until Arkham Knight \o/
4 day week \o/
\o/
I didn’t think they’d announced a collector’s edition yet.
I put $50 on a normal copy at EB Games and they’ll upgrade to a CE when it’s announced. I’ll also be ringing them up right after the end of the Bethesda E3 conference to make sure they read the notes they have
Ill only preorder a CE if the CE is worth it, ill give it a miss if its a tin case and in game map but will get it if it comes with a statue or somethinh
Played way too much Ark over the weekend and it’s really gotten me into the survival genre again…
Loaded up The Forest for the first time in nearly a year and woooow had the game changed… It’s so damn pretty now!
Have you played it recently @Hugo_the_Hungarian_barbarian?
(God I hope I spelled that right :-P)
It had co-op now… CO-OP!
Also Ark remains fantastic despite some early access issues, (respawned 500 feet in the air and such) much fun!
Did you figure out how to survive from 500ft in the air?
I survived the 500 feet in the air, it was when gravity took over and I hit the ground that didn’t work 😛
No big loss, I virtually have to rebuild everytime I log into the game anyway so I’ve stayed storing anything valuable in crates
I saw a bunch of people playing it yesterday, I’m definitely tempted to grab it, but I’m still playing Witcher, and both Batman AK and Lego Jurassic World are around the corner :S
It’s still definitely early access, which means a bit wonky and performance issues… But with other people it’s a lot of fun, plus DINOSAURS
PPPIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIXXXXEEEEEEEEEEEEEELLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!!!
Nope, haven’t played for a while, was looking at it on the weekend, but ended up playing SKYRIM!
I had read that they were adding co-op, but I’m surprised it is this soon.
I gots to play it now, especially CO-OP!!
*SQUUUUEEEEE*
We must organise a co-op session in the near future… We’ll be able to chop trees… TOGETHER \o/
Ohh, with two people, may actually make a real tree fort.
So many poor dead trees.
Anyone want a copy of DETOUR? Bought a 4-pack on the weekend, so I’ve got 3 copies to give away. Tweeted it on the weekend and specifically stated “TAYbies only”, the one and only reply I got was from some random, so I deleted the tweet. You’d think I would’ve learnt from last time.
So yeah, 3 copies of DETOUR, and also a 75% off voucher for Surgeon Simulator. First in best dressed.
Is the single player worthwhile? It looks like it’d be fun to muck around in while I’m trying to make up my mind of what I want to play. Damn the weekend was full of that. 3 days of space and time and getting restless with every game I was playing
Don’t know, haven’t played it yet. I’ve got over 530 games in my Steam library and I’ve played probably 10% of those.
I’ll send you a copy. Enjoy, friend.
Just realized you’re not on my Steam friends list and I can’t see your details on TAYnames. DM me your Steam deets and I’ll send you a copy.
What is detour anyway?
http://store.steampowered.com/app/92100/
Gotta go to work now. Let me know if you want a copy and I’ll gift it to you when I get home.
I did it! I completed Dark Souls!
Level 80, 55hrs as a sorcerer.
Now I’m having the time of my death in Bloodborne
How good does it feel?
Well done my friend!
This good
Wow! Congrats, so many good feels?
This many!
55hrs? Damn, you smashed it so much faster than I did.
Sorcerer, bosses become easy peasy in the second half.
Also, I got antsy to move on & skipped that hidden area under the mud.
Had a biggish day on Sunday after only getting a couple hours sleep the night before. Ended up crashing at 8.30 and then sleeping through most of Monday. It ended up being about 20 hours of sleep or something. So I’ve been up since late Monday afternoon/early Monday evening, and have no idea how I’m going to go for the rest of the day.
I finished reading the Attack on Titan manga up to its most current translation, or at least the most current volume you can buy as a book. I’ve now ordered the special edition of the next volume which apparantly comes with playing cards. So yeah, I’ll soon be able to play poker using manga characters and then give everyone evil looks when they inevitably bend the cards. I’m 100% sure I’d be able to find perfectly good fan translations of all the remaining chapters online for free, but I like having something physical to hold in my hands to read and that I can put on my shelf. Plus I don’t mind the wait. I know most people when it comes to any type of entertainment like to marathon through it all in one or two goes, but I like pacing myself a bit. Helps build the hype for upcoming installments.
Also on the subject of manga, this is the first manga I’ve ever read, and I had zero problems adapting to the right to left reading style. I’m even greater than I thought I was. Hooray.
Where have you picked up the Attack on Titan Manga?
Ordered online from Book Depository.
So I had a big Warmachine tournament on Saturday and I did pretty badly. Couldn’t get the damage rolls I needed in the first two rounds. The third round was against a new player with a bad back, so I went easy on him and even helped him through his turns. The fourth match I had won but still lost due to death clock. Even my opponent thought I had the game. Fifth match was against someone who had no interested.
So all in all driving two hours for a tournament did feel like a bit of a waste.
I have put way too many hours into Ark.
But that’s okay. Less okay is the number of tamed Dinos I’ve killed(well, caused the death of), but I’m rubbish, so that’s expected.
Also, sister bought me the first book/collection/volume/whatever of Y: The Last Man, which I’ll be glad to get into, since I’ve heard good things. Also got this lens, so I’m excited to take some prettier thoroughly mediocre photos.
Stegosaurus whose name I’ve forgotten, I clearly hardly knew ye.
I think we need to stop naming things after Bish. You guys will see when you log in next.
Oh God, this is going to end badly isn’t it?
I wouldn’t worry too much about it, Bish.
Tribe should be renamed the Tribe of Bish!
… We’re going to have to get Bish 4, aren’t we?
Heh. Hehehe… *flees*
Y was pretty damn great. I really got bogged down about four or five of the trade paperbacks in, though. This is a common theme for me. I really love the start and early-middle of many, many stories, but I often get disillusioned around the middle. Maybe it didn’t go where I was hoping it would, maybe they’ve tried to break with convention and ended up doing something contrived, maybe they’ve gone into the realm of the absurd for the sake of extending the run, maybe I just don’t want to see the story end. But I leave a LOT of things unfinished. Y: The Last Man is one of those stories for me.
The last issues of Y had me in tears.
That’s a shame, man. The final arc is amazing, and the last issue is my single favourite ending to any comic series ever.
I actually spoilered myself on the final issue, so it’s nice to know where it all ended up. I may yet finish it to fill in the blanks, but shit got weird alright. Not that the premise wasn’t.
A rarity in the American comics scene, BK Vaughn not only writes endings, he writes great endings.
It’s so refreshing amongst the peers that never break past act 2
I loved Y: The Last Man, I got the series off a friend who was moving house and wanted to reduce his physical comic collection, so I think I got the 10 volumes for $50 or so.
Also, I bought one of these lenses a few years back, and I don’t think it’s been removed from the body since;
http://www.sigmaphoto.com/product/18-35mm-f18-dc-hsm-a
Y’s great.
If you want some to tell you why at length, ping @shane
Y is sah gud, sah gud
BK Vaughn is sah gud
I would like to apologise to everyone who I convinced to buy ARK, thus ruining their lives for the near future.
In other news, oh man, so rad.
<3
You didn’t need to convince me, the dinosaurs already did that.
Shaved my head on the weekend… Got lazy and never went to the hair dresser because reasons… Never done this before, feels great albeit a bit… Breezy 😛
Love the feeling of water bouncing off my head when having a shower with a shaved head! 😀
Combination of this, plus motorcycle helmet hair, plus Furiosa makes me want to shave my head again!
This sounds like a badass plan! DO IT! 😀
Personally I prefer it ultra-long, but yours was pretty good at the length it was last I saw it.
Shaved is probably the wrong word… 4mm crew cut, so, trimmed? 😛
I’m not angry. Just disappointed. And angry.
Probably because your head is cold.
That’s why the beanie was invented, home slice! 😀
Cutting your hair off to then wear plant and animal hair instead seems rather odd, store cake.
You called?
Dead set, I bought a beanie ten minutes before I had my hair cut this weekend.
My headshape would not fare well with full on baldness I think 😛
Never even done a crew cut before so this took some convincing 😛
I thought the same, however I had signed up for Worlds Greatest Shave earlier this year, so this happened;
https://igcdn-photos-g-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xpf1/t51.2885-15/11018431_1568869226724446_1613620181_n.jpg
PUT THOSE CLIPPERS DOWN
In a change for me, for the first time in maybe ten years I’m actually considering growing mine a bit longer. 😛
Get out of my brain.
Winter is awesome, thank God for the cold!
That’s more like it.
1) Get a nice snug beanie for winter.
2) Prepare for day 2/3 when nice snug beanie is VERY hard to remove from head…
Oh yay, you guys! This has been the best week of my life. Let me show you why:
1. https://igcdn-photos-f-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xtf1/t51.2885-15/10632456_1603028979956069_535801343_n.jpg
annnnnnnd
2. https://igcdn-photos-c-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xfa1/t51.2885-15/11311220_389379644586802_241244200_n.jpg
(to clarify – I got engaged!)
KITTEN! <3 As cute as it is adorable!
Did the kitten give you the ring? DID YOU TRAIN THE KITTEN TO STEAL IT FROM A BANK VAULT? D:
The kitten did give me the ring! She had it on her collar!
And… you stole it? I’m not saying you’re a monster, but I’m certainly thinking it. 😛
That just goes without saying.
Also, ping to @transientmind 😀
Okay, now with full disclosure that this is an engagement ring a kitten collar proposal is pretty excellent. 😀
Oh my god, that’s not even the half of it! There was also a beautiful, hilarious letter read on our favourite podcast, the living room professionally decorated for the proposal, a beautiful, perfectly-fitting dress, and him serenading me with a Mariachi band!
NIIIIIIICE.
Now that is how you go all out.
That ring is wonderful, I really like it a lot. Big fan of non diamond-centric engagement rings, but diamonds do need to be in there.
Congratulations to Mr Jane? Bob? johnxo (as dickxo sounds a bit wrong). Either way he is a winner here (providing you said yes and didn’t just take the kitten and the ring)
You got engaged \o/
To a cat \o/
New human hybrid! \o/
Instant celebrity status in Japan.
Grats. 🙂
CONGRATULATIONS!!!!
Also that ring is beautiful!
I wasn’t sure I was right about the engagement part, so went with cat jokes instead.
SO COOL. CONGRATS!
Con-CAT-ulations?
Concatenations!
Congrats!
I’d give you two upvotes, but only one is allowed.
Congrats jane! =]
Happy engagement! That is actually a damn awesome ring.
Congrats!
Morning errbody hows every little thing? My weekend was sweet, not so much in the “sweet! Radical!” Sort of way moreso the “oh god this homemade vanilla slice is sweet”
So heres a quick recap
Friday!: I came home and Cathryn’s friend who’s been living in America/Canada the past 5 months was there and she brought us a big bag of chocolates and other stuff like hershys kisses, pretzel flavoured m&ms, birthday cake flavoured m&ms and Jiffy Pop. They stayed awake till 5am and beat super mario wii u while I crashed at 1 from exhaustion.
Saturday: I woke up at 11am, Cathryn’s dad came down and helped us move the treadmill to the garage, Cathryn’s friend made us all pancakes for lunch with canadian maple syrup! We also made a vanilla slice and I cooked up fettuccine cabonara for dinner
Sunday!: was Cathryn’s poppies birthday so we went to the local rsl and I spent $17 on 5 pieces of calamari, just let that sink in because I got food poisoning from it and spent the rest of the day watching netflix.
monday! We cleaned the house and I played destiny, we also got lost on a walk, vacuumed the car, cathryn attempted to make a roast for the first time ever ut was delicious and I made a chocolate self saucin pudding for dessert.
a tuesday morning question to throw you all off, Ark is a survival game involving dinosaurs, DayZ involves zombies and the island has cannibals. What other things could you survive from
Chickens from the Legend of Zelda.
You’d have to eat them live, because I’m pretty sure they can’t be killed.
Edit: I think I misread the question, so disregard.
Alternate idea for a game: the chickens are trying to survive against *us*.
Societal expectations. Wait, I do that already.
I think bears could be a thing to survive against. What if bears got guns, huh? HUH? WHO IS MONITORING THE BEAR MENACE
Bears would make a good survival game
I’ve always secretly hoped that when humans inevitably fuck themselves over, bears would be Earth’s next dominant species.
A biologist mate of mine informs me that anything powerful enough to wipe us out would probably get the bears as well.
But a man can dream.
Not if the cause of our death is our thumbs, bears dont have those
Damned Thumbitosis, our downfall was truly by our own hands.
….. this is unbelievably freaky… watch how this goes…
Friday: got home, had a friend visit, after 4 years in the US. Unrelated, I also fixed a phone,
Saturday: also slept in (till 12:50pm!). pancake breakfast/lunch.
Sunday: Food poisoning and netflix. (missus had it pretty bad, i got off lightly). also destiny.
Monday: Cleaned house and car most of the day, had meat defrosting for a roast, but got lazy and ordered pizza, then Destiny…
and destiny hasnt been part of my normal routine for about 6 months now, but starting to get back into it.
We are living nearly similar lives, is this real life or alternate reality, stuck in a lamb roast no escape from destiney
One of the things we discussed over the weekend was was the Dead of Winter could be a more interesting game if it got rid of the Zombies and was just trying to survive the winter. So survivial of the elements, be that winter, storms, desert or that super light rain where you feel like a dill with an umbrella or raincoat but still get just the slightest bit wet
I’d play that, less surviving the plague but more about surviving the cold
If that game has a traitor mechanic we know who to look at don’t we ColdCamV
Yeah…@FreezeSPreston
Arctic Scavengers has that as the theme
Morning all! hope everyone had an extra awesome weekend!
kept myself pretty busy doing not much at all….
For starters, I am completely disgusted by HTC. so heres the story; i have a sentimental attachment to a HTC 7 Mozart phone (was mine originally then i handed it down to my mum). at some point, the digitizer (glass touch screen had cracked) and so i bought a new part from ebay to fix it…
anyway, i bought the replacement screen off ebay and over the weekend sat down to fix it… Now, the issue i always had with this phone was storage. it came with 8gb internal storage, and no expansion option.
anyway, to get to the screen you practically need to gut the phone completely. after getting to the halfway mark however, i discovered something shocking. that 8gb internal storage??? IT IS AN ACTUAL MICRO SD CARD INSIDE A MICRO SD SLOT INSIDE THE PHONE BEHIND THE MOTHERBOARD!!!
that right folks… theres a micro sd slot…. inside the fucking phone….
you can actually see it in this pic.
whilst it looks like its on the outer edge of the phone, it is completely inaccessible one the phone is back together (notice the casing having no slot. there is a small piece of tape on the msd as well to keep it from being ejected.
absolutely woeful….
The sad truth is that yeah, that sounds about right. Nice cheap way for the manufacturer to put storage in a phone, and making it inaccessible to the average user means you can push your higher storage phones for a premium.
I hate it so much, but it is what it is.
I had a Mozart 7. It was a piece of shit. Knew about the memory being just micro SD inside it because mine came apart at some point and I found it in there…
i agree wholeheartedly… again, i only keep it because of the sentimental attachment…
i was so excited to get that phone too. was looking forward to the windows phone os only to discover a severe lack of apps. except for the ones whipped up in some meth lab whilst the designer was on a high…
I’m really hoping there’s some really nice Windows 10 flagship phones coming this year, the last really good Windows phone was the 1020, and that came out in 2013.
We’re nearly at the end of the season and as is tradition, episode 9 really delivered some heavy blows so it can gently lay us to rest in the finale and leave us hanging until next season. Someone should really write a book or something about this show to tide us over! If @powalen and @jimu are any indication there’d be a massive market for it.
Daenerys visits Jorah in his new home, a cave where he now lives with his bear-wife. She feels awkward that they parted on bad terms and invites him back into her service. Jorah explains the concept of exile back to her in the same words she used on him. The irony is completely lost on her. The bear, being a bear, doesn’t really understand what’s going on.
Under Braavosi law, Arya’s failure as a dancer forces her to work as a stripper until her debts to the Council of Braavosi Recreational Advisors (COBRA) is paid off. Since she never incurred any tuition fees the debt is more of a moral one. After watching a single drunk stripping performance, COBRA agree unanimously that pressing the matter further would be, in their estimation, “just sad”. Arya takes the news gracefully, then smiles wickedly and winks at the camera to subtly suggest this was all part of her plan. Then just in case you don’t get it, she winks again and whispers “all according to my plan” while rubbing her hands together.
The opposing factions of the Night’s Watch reconcile their differences and agree that if a tattoo means something special to you, then there is no way to objectively quantify it’s inherent value and there’s no sense arguing about it. Ser Aliser Thorn takes the opportunity to reveal a tattoo he had done as a teenager, written in the language of the far east that he has since been told actually means “beef in black bean sauce, extra noodle”. Because this is a vulnerable, human moment for Ser Aliser, Sam and Jon privately agree not to mention that it is actually a sacred rune that conveys courage and strength on the bearer, because normally Ser Aliser is a huge asshole.
Trapped in the cave of wonders, Jamie discovers there is more to the purportedly magic lamp than meets the eye. For instance, when filled with oil, the escaping vapour can be lit for light and warmth. He and Bronn are genuinely delighted by the fact they can now watch each other starve to death.
Tyrion wakes up in an alley nursing a massive headache after a night of heavy drinking. His initial panicked reaction is that he’s been kidnapped, but realisation that he’s just very badly hung over quickly sets in. He then finds a badly written ransom note for Varys in his pocket and panics again. He balls his hands into fists and screams to the sky “WELL THIS IS ANOTHER FINE MESS YOU’VE GOTTEN US INTO!”
10/10… would read.
COBRA XD
Morning, TAY.
I played a dino game on the weekend. I tamed a Parasaur that I named Ducky. He died.
I tamed a Dilophosaurus that I named Schnookums. He died.
I tamed a Velociraptor that I named Cuddly-Wuddly. She died.
I also watched a bunch of Sense8. Amazing show! I’m loving it. Probably my favourite Netflix-made show so far.
Sense 8 is incredible…. i dont understand where or how netflix manages the budgets required for these shows….
also love how they just dump an entire season on you just like that…
also worth watching: Between.
I had a Parasaur named Ducky, she died, she died.
@blaghman said she was sleeping, HE LIED, HE LIED.
Why oh why is my dinosaur dead? Couldn’t that T-rex have hit me instead?
I had a Dilo name Schnookums, he died-
Ooooohhhh Duet!
*enter @blaghman*
I had a Stego named Lego, he drowned he drowned!
Sense8 bros. So good. I’m up to episode 8. Going to space the last four out so I can seamlessly go from this to Orange is the New Black s3 on Friday.
Woah! Today is a lot more active, yesterday was like a graveyard. Damn public holidays 😛
Ugh, I am getting old. Instead of staying up late and playing more Witcher 3 or having another couple of games of Heroes of the Storm (made a big post about it in yesterday’s TAY but no one was around to read it 🙁 ), I went to bed early so that I could get up early and do some house work so I didn’t wake my partner up doing it last night :/
I hadn’t realised it was a public holiday until about lunch time
I knew but only because I manage a team in a call centre and it was dead when normally a Monday is ridiculous!
Have spent the last week and a half smashing through Orange is the New Black on Netflix. 2 more episodes left of season 2, with season 3 due in 3 days \o/
I’m really liking it so far. There’s been a couple of turns in the story that I’ve been dubious of but the show has always improved for it so they seem to know what they’re doing.
With the exception of the first couple episodes of the second season I’ve really enjoyed the show. Refreshed the last couple episodes of Season 2 on the weekend just to remind what was going on in anticipation of Season 3, but it was a surprising one. Some of those characters are just genius and played to perfection.
I hated the sudden change in direction at the start of the season until you realise how useful it was to disorient the audience to convey Piper’s confusion – and then you find out like 5 episodes later that
the reason Piper didn’t get extra punishment or thrown in a max facility for nearly killing Dogget was because Suzanne knocked her out, making it seem like her and Dogget both got off equally.They also have us swinging between hating and not hating Alex which is again, Piper’s feelings on the matter. Even though I don’t care for Piper much as a person, this show does a great job of getting me to empathise with her.
Like I didn’t even feel like her trying to sell Soso out for the blanket was even a dick thing to do until Soso caught on and called her out on it.Also Larry and Polly are terrible people. Just awful.
…spoilers?
Or is this a Game of Thrones style write-up?
Sorry, that was meant to be spoiler tagged, the code didn’t work for some reason.
Might want to spoiler your post for the non-OitNB-savvy, hey? A lot of plot detail there.
Edit, never mind, you did.
I accidentally used < spoiler > instead of < s >
Hopefully anyone not caught up on the show who saw it will have forgotten it by the time the get caught up.
Woooo elder scrolls online for consoles!
15gb patch huh?
Well I guess I can do work instead. 🙁
Has anybody had property built before? A random conversation has got me thinking a lot about building at the moment and it might be a viable option.
Spoilered for length.
See, my partner’s house (i.e. mortgage is in her name since before we got together) is not in the best condition. That’s putting it nicely. If we were ever to sell it or rent it we’d need to do extensive renovations before either option would work. It’s a 3 bedroom from the 70s, with bad wiring, bad fixtures, a kitchen that’s literally falling apart, bad plumbing in the bathroom (a bathroom which didn’t even have working lights until after I moved in!), a completely underutilised ground flood, a master bedroom with some of the weirdest design choices (a sliding door with no lock!?), and many more issues that are not in my head. I swear.So we started thinking… with all the renovation that would need to happen, might it not be cheaper to knock the whole thing down and start from scratch? We could go from a run down and dated 3br to a new 5br with more options than would be possible renovating.
Downsides… Would need to live elsewhere while rebuilding. Possibly cost more, but at the same time gain a lot of value that just wouldn’t be feasible otherwise. That’s all I can really think of.
Am I crazy for thinking this way?
If you already have the land, you’re a ways ahead.
If I was going to build (and I haven’t nor can I give specific advice on the process) I’d build a home that’s as energy/resource efficient as possible. A lot of the off the plan homes we get here are really ill-suited for the climate.
In the ACT, every house built nowadays needs to have at least a 5* energy rating. I keep forgetting this isn’t a thing elsewhere.
Definitely something to consider!
Even with a 5* rating, it’s still really poor design.
The problem I see with QLD homes is that they’re designed to let heat out which is nice in the summer but reeeeeeeally bad in the winter. Unless you take the opposite and then they’re great in the winter but reeeeeeeally bad in the summer. Catch 22 home building!
PROS
* New house, but don’t need to buy new land.
* Same location, always good for drunken stumbling home
* Upgraded living!
CONS
* Living somewhere else while still servicing the original mortgage AND paying builders is copping three lots of living expenses all at once. You’d want to be absolutely sure you could sustain this (and sustain it for longer than the builder says).
* Building goes overbudget. Always.
* Building almost always goes past deadline.
* Hidden costs. If your soil is of a certain type, it costs up to four times more just to lay a concrete slab.
It might be crazy. It will certainly be crazy expensive. But if the house is unsaleable as is, and isn’t meeting your comfort needs, this might be a decent option.
Massive emphasis on this.
EDIT: I should add – you’re not crazy, it’d be great having a nice new house but it is a lot of time, money and stress. I’m not saying don’t do it, just be prepared for some shitty experiences along the way.
Yeah, I think that’s my concern is budgeting and knowing that building never goes to plan. We’d been planning on putting our dual incomes to use by getting an investment property or similar but long term I think we’d be losing out but not addressing the issues that exist at the current place. Our plan is still to move to Melbourne in 5 to 10 years, so we’d be much better off if we had a nice property ready to go for rental rather than being held up in our move plans by a property that isn’t ready to facilitate a cross country move.
Would need to crunch a lot of numbers and speak to a lot of people. This is just day 2 or 3 of thinking about it, trying to gain as many opinions as possible. 🙂
Buy thousands of helium balloons and take the existing house to Venezuela
Have new house built while you live cheaply in South America
Return to completed house
I see no issues with this plan
I support this plan in theory. Unfortunately Mrs B-ob didn’t like Up.
I know, she’s a monster.
I know that @beavwa has just gone through the whole building process but think that might have been house and land package dealio. But there was a number of things that he picked up in contracts and the like so he might be able to give you a couple of pointers of things to look out for.
I have been summoned…
So @beeawwb, looks like many others have covered off a lot of things.
Demo and build means you’ve mainly got to factor in the alternate living arrangements (though I know people that have been crazy enough to do staged demo and rebuild as a mega-renovation and just living in the bit not being worked on, really don’t recommend this though), which means time and money.
Biggest thing with a build that can blow out is time. Time to settle on the right plans. Time for external approvals. Time to actually kick off once everything is lined up (funny story, our first contract that I refused to sign left an unlimited time period for that bit). Time for the odds and ends to get sorted out that got missed on the main streamlined project.
And when you’re making alternate living arrangements, extensive and unpredictable time variations tend to screw with that a little, so don’t be surprised if an extra 6 months rent gets munched out of your budget during the circus. And on that topic – build finance – most comes out early on, so you’ll be paying mortgage interest and rent during that period. That hurts, and you want to minimise that as best you can, but there’s far too many factors out of your control so be prepared to lose some cash in the crossover periods.
Apart from that, theoretically demo and build shouldn’t be that different from buying empty land and building. There’ll be more time / cost factored for access and planning issues around existing neighbours, but experienced builders should handle that OK.
Main thing to stress is to go get independent legal advice before you sign any contract.
I can also recommend an independent inspector to sign off build stages is worth their weight in gold, takes a lot of stress away from the process.
I was going to point out that the biggest things to watch out for are things will never go according to plan, plan for a larger budget than what you’re willing to spend and without a doubt the timeframe will be significantly longer. However everyone else has already said that =p If you guys decide to take it on just make sure other aspects of your lives are relatively stable before doing so; just renovations can be very exhausting in terms of time, energy and finances. I can only imagine what building could be like.
Planning for a wedding next year! \o/ … … … /o\
……. It was nice knowing you Bob. I’ll be sure to say something nice at your early funeral =p
We built during the course of last year, and the wedding is next month…
It’s actually nice to go through the major parts for both at the same time, lends a nice bit of … perspective.
@jocon @liondrive peeps some Destiny co-op later tonight for dailies/weeky’s? I can probably only commit an 1-2 hours today but reckon I can do the nightfall tomorrow evening if peeps are keen?
Also did a bit more research on Qo-fuckyouguys-dron and it seems he is the toughest boss in PoE aside from the level 35 Skolas.
Yea… Qodron’s a bastard. In the 32 version, we had trouble with him as two 33s and a 34. So happy they nerfed him… now you can actually get the detainment field down with a 331 shotgun just before it kills you. That said, Jailbreaker still helps a great deal.
Looking forward to taking on Gutrot the Unclean tonight, seeing what he has in store for us. That is, if Bungie keep the PoE rotation up. If they do, good luck with the upcoming 32… the boss fight seems to be either 40 seconds long or take an eternity… there is no middle ground.
Yeah see this was always Bungie’s problem with raids, there was never a time-based middle ground in terms of fights. The whole game has the design to be played in short bursts i.e. 1-2 hours but then you get to PvE end-game content and you’re looking at huge time-sinks the degree to which varies. I actually really enjoyed the level 28 PoE, the enemies weren’t too tough and the boss fights while time consuming were short enough that I didn’t feel fatigued and long enough that I wouldn’t be spamming them all day and night. However getting to 32 it took us a good 30-40 minutes to clear the first 4 rounds and then we got stuck on Qodron for about another 45min by which point I never wanted to look at the game again. That kind of exhaustion enducing gameplay is a major design flaw. Our best attempt on him took 30 minutes and we only spent about 2-3 minutes out of that 30 damaging the boss. Is the Gutrot the Hive boss for this week’s 32?
Also with regards to treasure keys what’s the average drop rate from the lesser chests in PoE? How’re you supposed to get to 34 if you can’t get etheric light unless you run the 34 PoE?
Reading reminds me I still have 2 treaure chest keys to use might need to run PoE tonight
Gutrot should be this week’s 34, as he’s the only boss we’ve not seen yet (according to the Grimoire cards). 32 should be Kaliks Reborn, if they continue to put the 32 as the past week’s 34 (which they’ve done every week so far).
Valus Tra’ug was alright, he didn’t seem that much of a bullet-sponge, and the rotating shields mechanic was interesting (contrast with Val Aru’un, who is just a huge sponge). Urrox was a good fight, I think – mostly because it’s accelerated both ways by the Solar Burn. Qodron was insanely difficult by comparison, but once they balanced it, it can be done legit in about 10-15 minutes. Kaliks’ mechanic just means the second half of the fight can drag on for aaaaages, in my experience, because every time by that point we were all just hiding and waiting on synths. It’s not hard from that point in the fight, it’s just tedious.
Not sure about drop rates – had a friend get one key from each chest in the same run, but I’ve only had one from them since they changed it (about 7-9 runs). Seen maybe 5 keys drop in those runs, so while it’s much better than it used to be, I’d still bring a key into the Prison.
Some of the 34s are doable as 3x33s or 2x33s+1×34, though it’d definitely still be hard (and time-consuming), but I get the feeling they’re geared towards people either getting EL through Iron Banner/Nightfall, or amassing 42 light gear from Variks over the weeks via the 32. My plan was to wait until the third week to have three pieces from Variks and an Exotic to hit 34 before I touched the 34 – got lucky in nightfall this week, tho, and scored an EL, so jumped into 34 with a 34 with a decent stat distribution. Unlike my 0/0/540 34 titan after this week’s 32. 😛
Still kinda annoyed that EL acquisition is so heavily PvP-oriented, tho – have so many friends on my list that are (relatively) swimming in it just by doing Trials and Iron Banner.
By runs do you mean the level 28 PoE’s? Also is it worth saving your keys for the 32-34 PoE chests or blow them on the 28’s? I ran about 7 level 28 PoE’s and have 0 keys to show for it. Plenty of coins and motes of light though.
“Runs” meaning general Prison playthroughs (they seemed to just fly by this week, sorry for the confusion) – done three or four 32s and three 34s this week, and I think we did a couple of 28’s earlier in the week to unlock the 32s for a friend’s alts. From what I’ve seen, the big chest has the same loot table on 28-34, and 35 is said to (also?) contain a shader, an emblem and a ship.
You’ll get a free key by doing your first Queen’s bounty each week on each character, tho, so no real need to worry about missing out. And the real rewards for the 32 and up are the armour/weapon cores and EL – not too concerned about that shiny gold chest, myself.
Thanks for all your info dude; seems I’ll need to level up my Titan and gear up my hunter this week then to maximize those treasure keys. Is there a chance to get EL from the large chest even at lower level PoE’s? If not then it seems the best way to proceed is to quit PoE for the time being and start mastering the Temple of Osiris.
I tried level 32 PoE for the first time over the weekend, to 33s and a 34. We threw ourselves at Qodron for about half an hour before giving up. Apparently you’re supposed to kill the eye of Qodron, a random goblin that will give you a jailbreaker perk and enable you to escape the bubble that kills you? Even if we could have figured that out there were so many adds that we couldn’t even get any shots off at the boss. Drove us nuts.
Went back to 28. We might not get armor/weapon cores that way, but at least it’s fun.
Yeah we found the Eye on our third attempt after I looked up forums and shit. He’s ridiculously hard to spot and he’s an elite i.e. yellow bar so doesn’t go down easily as well. Our 30 minute attempt we kept getting killed and ressurecting (2 sunsingers) and had liondrive on the eye for jailbreaker however because the timing is fucked up there were times we would kill the eye and the jailbreaker buff would run out just as the shields spawned. So even the mechanic you’re meant to use i.e. find the mob kill him use the buff to break out is broken. Effectively you need to find the mob, kill him at the right fucking time and then use the buff to break out. Oh make sure you’re also all close together so you can break each other out easily otherwise too bad. The whole thing just felt like a massive fuck you by Bungie. Not. fun. at. all.
Pretty much. It really comes down to timing – Qodron seems to search for targets every 45-60 seconds, but the eye seems to spawn almost immediately after you down one – if your jailbreaker is running down to about 10 seconds and Qodron’s not searching yet, you really need to find the new eye. Every time our group wiped on Qodron that first night (pre-nerf), it was because we couldn’t find the eye in time. Even cheating death with a sunsinger, they’d just get focused down by hobgoblins seconds after rezzing.
Ideally, you want to locate the eye, get him to low health but keep him alive and nearby until Qodron searches for targets, then focus him down, gather together in cover so the jailbreaker can work through all three detainment fields quickly, then have 1-2 people put as much heavy into the boss as they can, while 1-2 people (as required) clean up adds (particularly those major hobgoblins). Issue is the eye also hits hard, and tends to wander about, so keeping him alive can be problematic, as can finding him when you need to, too.
It really helps to have a titan for that fight, tho – blinding blessing bubble is extremely useful for not dying to hobgoblins, and allows you to keep the eye nearby without it killing you.
I do agree that the number of adds in that fight is a little ridiculous, and the timing requires a fair bit of luck. We had two 33s dedicated to clearing adds, occasionally emptying any heavy they found into the boss, and the 34 focusing on the boss and taking out the eye for the buff. It still took a few tries, even when we all knew exactly what to do.
Where were you holed up? There’s a good, reasonably defensible spot on the far left – a blessing bubble in that corner there (out of boss’ line of sight, but not overlapping the entrance) is really useful for surviving all those adds, and the spot just to the right has good cover from the boss and adds for taking out the detainment fields, as long as you stand a couple feet from the barrier to avoid splash damage from the boss.
We tried both right and left, it was too hectic to make a difference for us, really. By the time we figured out the Eye/Jailbreaker buff connection it was really too little too late. We’d already wiped five times from getting trapped in near un-breakable bubbles.
Yea, our first time was really rough, too. We knew what needed to be done after an hour and a half of trial and error, but we just couldn’t pull it off. It was 1am on a worknight, we were pleading for help on our friends lists as our third had gone to sleep. Ended up getting it done with a kind friend enlightening us to cheese and casting a blessing bubble in the entrance while we fired about 10-12 gjallarhorns each at Qodron’s face. An hour and a half of trying to do it legit culminated in a slightly crazed 30 second “f**k you, Qodron” followed by loot and much needed sleep. Was so happy to hear they nerfed the detainment damage, and made jailbreaker more useful, but it’s still a pain to try to keep track of the Eye, let alone to kill him at the right time.
Unfortunately, this is me right now:
http://theoatmeal.com/comics/no_internet
I blame Splatoon multiplayer… 🙁
Also, I’ll be doing my usual hourly updates for Le Mans this weekend, from 11pm AEST Saturday night.
You’re not crazy, but demolition costs can be a lot more than you think.
I had a friend that bought a block (this is in WA mind you so CRAZY expensive) that just had an old single bedroom cottage with a loungeroom, kitchen and bathroom, really tiny. It cost him about $40,000 just to get that tiny thing demolished. Maybe you should do it yourself 😛 could be fun!
Reno’s can be cheaper in the long run but it sounds like you would almost be rebuilding the house in it’s current state so probably better to knock it all down and start again. The living elsewhere while rebuilding would be painful. You could live in the house until you get council approval for the demolition and the new build, but then you would probably have 6-10 months before a new house would be ready. Also depending on the council, sometimes you need plans for the new build approved before you can start building (again WA so it might be different elsewhere).
If you have a family member or friend that can help you out, then you shouldn’t have trouble with the living. Otherwise you might have to pay for demo upfront, but a lot of banks or finance through building companies have deals where you just pay repayments on how much has been spent at the time, so you wouldn’t be paying full mortgage repayments for the new house until it was done.
This was meant to be a reply to @beeawwb
Oh man I would love to demolish this place myself. So many times I want to take a sledgehammer to it, and that’s just living in it!
As a handyman I would urge against this, if your house was built in the 70s high chance its got asbestos through out it. That alone will jack the demo price skyhigh
Not to mention being illegal (in melbourne anyway) to conduct or remove asbestos sheeting without proper training
Haha, don’t worry that’s a primary concern that’s being factored in to both reno and demo costs is the possibility of asbestos. There’s no way I’d do it myself with that hanging over our heads. Plus I’m just not that handy. I’m MacGuyver handy, not … *insert builder* handy.
Yeah the stuffs a bitch, I got trained in removal a few months back and I still hate the shit. My respirator alone set me back $150
Splatoon is still loads of fun, ranked is pretty cool.
I’m still at a loss as to how so many Japanese players hit level 20 so damned fast! I’m still on 17 and I’m not taking it easy!
Also wondering why 90% of the people I play online are Japanese, regardless of the time of day. The only others I’ve seen are a couple of Germans and a Spaniard.
I would like to actually play the other 7 aussies who have this game…
I’d play you, but my ranking is woeful at the moment…
Also, my net is capped until Thursday.
Wow you’re still only at lv17? 😛
Most of the matches I play at night time here seem to be a 50/50 split (or more in our favour) of locals to Japanese, then it tips back in their favour after midnight. Once we ended up with nearly every person in our match as someone we all knew, save for one sole Japanese player.
I love ranked though. It completely changes how you play the game and approach each map. Plus I get to be on top of the end-of-match ladder for a change.
Witcher 3 peeps… how much further do I have to go?
Before Kaer Morhen I completed every available contract and side-quest I could find. Still have some question marks to uncover, but that’s abot it. I’ve completed the battle of Kaer Morhen, got my revenge on the Crones and Hunt General, and headed into Novigrad to help Ciri tidy up loose ends. How much would you say is left?This is feeling a lot like dramatic conclusion endgame.
Depends how fast you play through the quests, but you’ve got quite a bit of story stuff left in Novigrad and elsewhere. You will be told when you hit the point of no return, though.I thought I reached the end of the game like three or four times. JUST KEEPS GOING. 😛
Got all three characters to Iron Banner rank 5 in Destiny this week. My first time in IB too. Apparently Bungie, realising that people have lives outside the game, implemented a reputation boost so once you have one character levelled up to rep 3, you get double rep gain on your alt characters. Took me all of last week, playing an hour or two a night including bounties each night, to get my Titan to 5. Did my Hunter in about 5 hours on Saturday night/Sunday morning and my Warlock in about 3 hours across Monday evening, with only one set of bounties that are worth a ridiculous amount after we get into the “Monday” reset when the tempered buff gives +232% gain before it gets doubled for being an alt. Iron Wrath which is normally worth 200 rep is worth around 260 when you have the class item, shader and emblem equipped, plus 603 for the tempered buff, doubled for the alt bonus = 1726 rep for one bounty. That’s nearly the bridge from 4 to 5 all by itself!
Then I had to do a LOT of glimmer farming to be able to buy all the etheric light/iron banner armor/weapons, but I now have two level 34 characters and one 33, with a maxed out Vision of Confluence which will make a real mess of everything next time there’s a Solar burn. \o/
Solar burn? That will be this week’s Nightfall then 😀 I really cba getting to rank 5 this IB. I did it last time and got the scout rifle he was selling again, so many legendary scout rifles now and they’re all pretty similar 🙁
I’m neglecting my hunter right now though. He’s at 33 whike my warlock and titan are at 34. My warlock is also fully decked out in the POE gear. Shame that it only boosts strength though. I’m done for the week though. I have pretty much all the exotics, the only thing I need are weapons from VoG and my characters are pretty much maxed out. Considering PVP is really imbalanced right now, and even though I usually finish in the top 2 on my team with my mida, there’s just no worthwhile rewards from it.
Ran the Nightfall 3x last night, used Confluence each time. A++ would confluence again.
Also Gjallarhorn dropped… for my friend who joined us halfway through the Nightfall. I got No Land Beyond, which is as bad as the legends say.
The only thing NLB would be good for I think is as an invisible hunter getting the drop on the other team in Trials of Osiris and because it doesn’t show up for the opposition as a red glare when zooming, you can take them out before they know where you are. It’d be a great weapon if you could put it in a secondary slot
I assume it’s one of the scopes you unlock that causes NLB to not have sniper-glint, because the basic iron-sight scope it comes with most certainly does glint.
Oh, I haven’t played with it, I was assuming that because it doesn’t have a scope it doesn’t produce a glare. There goes any point of that sort of weapon.
Yeah, I think someone on the Destiny subreddit the other day was commenting how ridiculous it is that the new fusion/sniper rifle the Queenbreaker Bow has a scope that doesn’t produce glint but NLB which only has Iron Sights does produce a glint.
I played around with it last night. The RoF is a joke, the sights don’t even refocus near the same area once you’re done sliding the bolt (which might at least make up for it somewhat) and to top it off despite it using primary ammo which drops fairly readily, you only get to hold 12 bullets. So it takes you roughly half an hour to fire those 12 bullets and maybe kill one guy, then you’re scrounging in the dirt for more shots like an animal.
Utterly pointless.
Well I guess I’ll rephrase my original point, replacing NLB with the fusion sniper 😛
And as a result, I’ll confirm that NLB is pointless
So that was a long weekend and a bit. Friday night was spent playing Firefly the board game, which I won. And I only got reavered once despite us using the reaver expansion. Stayed up way too late after that though.
Saturday night was hanging out with the BrisTaybies and @gingerchris86 which was good fun. Sorry I’ve been a curmudgeonly/lazy person in the past and I shall endeavour to go to more stuff in the future. Sunday was mostly a boring housework/chore day.
Yesterday though was big. Warhammer 40K RPG. Close to thirteen hours of straight game time with only a short dinner break. Hoo boy, this spoiler story is going to be long.
So this was a variant on the Deathwatch version of the game where we have formed a squad of Adeptus Astartes (aka Space Marines) that is comprised of a number of different chapters. There is a bit of background to cover while I explain the set up as this is done in the group’s little special area of the 40K universe.There was me, Durance Haket, a World Eaters assault marine that, during the Great Crusade of the 31st millennium, was part of an expeditionary fleet of World Eaters and Imperial Army that came across a sizeable Ork army in the Karkis system of the Quantum sector of Segmentum Ultima (the eastern fringe of the galaxy). The Orks overwhelmed the expeditionary fleet and the World Eaters had to drop emergency pods on one of the planets in system, which came to be known as Sothis. The majority of these pods never made landfall. Of the few that did, they were either butchered by Orks or, as was the case of Durance Haket, the individual Astartes were so damaged by the resulting impact damage that their bodies went into reactive stasis. Most of them didn’t survive being in stasis but Durance did. He woke up on the cusp of the 42nd millennium after being discovered by Imperial excavations and nursed back to full health/taken out of stasis.
In addition to the above, it turned out that less than a dozen of the World Eaters had survived stasis over the past 10,000 years and, understandably, the modern Imperium didn’t really want to let out that they had found actual Legiones Astartes, especially ones from a now traitor legion. Fortunately one of the surviving World Eaters that had been found was a World Eaters veteran Contemptor Dreadnought named Lord Taarn. He was reasonably frustrated by the current turn of events however he had a chance to redeem his legion. Lord Taarn was charged with reconstructing the survivors into a new chapter of Astartes known as the War Dogs. Durance Haket (aka me) would be one of the first of this new chapter (yay….).
That’s just me though. There are two other members of this squad currently. One of which is a Blood Ravens aspiring chaplain named Taric Tarsonis who was one of the individuals responsible for not only unearthing part of the World Eaters relics but was also crucial in a recent war against Greenskins on Sothis itself. He has aspirations of achieving a high rank in the Blood Ravens and serving as a prime example alongside Chapter Master Gabriel Angelos.
The third member of the squad is also a little special. That is Atash of the Shadowed Sons, a librarian and studying techmarine after a little mishap. The Shadowed Sons are similar to the situation of the War Dogs in that they are associated with a traitor legion, in this case the Thousand Sons. The odd side of things is that the Shadowed Sons are the remnants of a Thousand Sons fleet that was caught in a Warp disturbance and thrown adrift in the Warp for ten thousand years (due to wibbly wobbly Warpy stuff). The Thousand Sons fleet suddenly showed up in approximately 989.M41 and were understandably confused by the time lapse. Fortunately their first interaction with realspace was with Tzeentchian Chaos Thousand Son Marines and they quickly showed their loyalty by blasting them and refusing their sorcerous ways. They made an active effort to integrate with the Imperium as it currently stands and they provide a watchful bastion in the Quantum sector.
So yes, the squad is comprised of two Astartes who are actually 10,000 years old and originated from traitor legions and one Astartes from a chapter who has already had a shaky past when dealing with daemons and the Warp.
Keeping up with all of this heresy? Good because there’s more coming.
The game begins with Durance joining the squad after an extended period of recuperation that was completely unrelated to the accidental summoning of a Tzeentchian Daemon Prince by Atash as a result of triggering Perils of the Warp. It was also completely unrelated to the fact that Atash had most of the right side of his body torn to pieces and had his primary heart ripped out of his chest by the Daemon Prince. Nope, completely unrelated.
Durance, Atash, and Taric have been selected by Lord Taarn, the newly installed chapter master of the War Dogs, to serve as his emergency response team after his elevation into the rank of Ruler of the Sothis System. This was forced upon him by the rest of the Quantum Sector’s Imperial government so as to preserve the fragile peace that had been won against the Greenskins. Also you don’t really want to argue with a Contemptor Dreadnought, especially a former World Eater. The team would deal with problems before they ballooned into full-on wars and also deal with some rather pesky Imperial administrations that had butted their noses in of late (the Inquisition being of primary note but also a number of failed Administratum bureaucrats and some Chaos cults as well).
The team were directed to respond to a SOS message that had been identified as originating from Sothis’ moon, Tephu. A ship had crash-landed on the moon that was not registered in any travel registrations with Sothis’ planetary government. Subsequent grilling of the Administratum officials and the local Inquisition revealed that the mystery ship was in fact an Inquisition vessel and things got a whole lot more complicated. The moon was relatively inhospitable and, to complicate things even further, there were gravitic anomalies present around the moon that obstructed void travel as well. To further provide support in the mission, Lord Taarn was able to request the assistance of Vercceti, a Tactical Marine from the Knights Tempest, an Ultramarines successor chapter that had previously operated on Sothis.
Fast forward to the mission on the planet. The squad deployed in a Stormraven assault ship and deployed into Tephu’s minimal atmosphere. In their prior analysis of the moon, the squad identified that there were two polar observation and communications facilities, both Imperial in construction. The squad agreed to investigate these facilities to determine if they had picked up any signals in relation to the crashed vessel.
Turns out, the facility was mostly a forgotten relic that just scanned the void and pinged the nearest Imperial vessel to give them an update on general void happenings (mostly gravity fluctuations, solar flares, and the like). However, what was interesting about the facility is that there were signs of a battle and a large number of dead Dark Eldar and their slave races. These Dark Eldar looked as though they had attacked in force with Jetbikes, Raiders, Skyboards, and flesh-constructs. Their deaths looked to have been caused with razor sharp crystalline weaponry and massive energy lances. Durance had no idea what had happened but Atash and Taric explained that it looked to be a feud between the Eldar and the Dark Eldar.
Why there would be such a battle was partially explained by the facility itself which was found to be lightly coated in a strong but psycho-reactive crystal that Atash identified as Wraithbone, a common element of Eldar Craftworlds. And so we broke it, which Atash found to his dismay triggered a sort of psychic beacon that echoed across the moon. Thinking quickly, we entered the facility and found that it had been partially transformed into some sort of tomb. A single Eldar had transformed into a crystalline sculpture in the centre of the facility and it was surrounded by Imperial cogitators. Atash went to work scouring the cogitator records while the rest of the squad started hearing whispers and seeing shadows flickering at the edges of their vision. Something was playing tricks with their minds.
Atash found the data he was looking and explained to the rest of the squad that there had been a severe gravity fluctuation above the moon at around about the same time as the vessel issued the SOS. There were also signs that the gravity disturbance had also occurred upon the moon previously in the past and that it seemed to play with the balance of Warp and realspace on the planet, which helped to explain the illusions that were plaguing the rest of the squad.
The squad made a beeline for the crash site and found that it appeared the survivors had ejected a survival pod before the ship plummeted to the ground. When they investigated the crash site, they came across the remnants of the survivors who were quite frazzled after having shadows and tricks mess with their minds. Most of the survivors had perished in the extremely cold temperatures including, it seems, an Inquisitor. The highest ranking individuals were a Sister of Battle and an Ecclesiarch and there were a few other assistants that had survived with them.
Atash and Durance went into the crashed ship to scour for the black box and other flight records while Taric and Vercceti escorted the survivors onto the Stormraven. Cue, Dark Eldar jetbikes and a dang Voidraven fighter-bomber coming in to wreck our day.
On a side note, far too many mentions of Raven in the one session.
Taric and Vercceti managed to get all of the survivors aboard the Stormraven before things truly went south. By south, I mean the Stormraven copping a haywire missile straight to the fuselage which shut off all power in the Stormraven and its occupants. So good old Astartes power armour just became rather worthless. Meanwhile Atash was busy downloading all of the relevant information and Durance was keeping watch. The jetbikes screamed around and shot at the Stormraven without much effect however the Voidraven tore chunks out of the Stormraven’s armour. Things were looking bad. To make things worse, there was a large body of Kabalite warriors, Wyches, and beasts racing towards the wreckage and signs of Raiders on the horizon.
Atash and Durance ducked out of the crashed ship and made themselves known to the jetbikes to draw fire away from the Stormraven. Closer and closer a bunch of them screamed towards the duo while Atash prepared a couple of frag grenades and Durance tested the burners on his jump pack. The jetbikes fired wildly as Atash lobbed the frag grenades and tore a number of them to pieces while Durance boosted upwards and tore through the survivors with his chain axe. Bloody gibbets everywhere.
Taric and Vercceti’s power armour regained some functionality and they managed to pop off a few shots at the Voidraven to make it veer off course. The Voidraven dodged a krak missile from Vercetti while Taric sniped its targeting array and forced it into extreme evasive manoeuvres. Further careful sniping and rocket fire took out the Voidraven’s engines and it plummeted toward the ground, straight towards the other crashed ship. Atash took refuge inside the wrecked hulk while Durance boosted out towards the oncoming mass of the Dark Eldar raiding host.
Cue Atash receiving a psychic message in a distinctly unusual tongue and a great wailing cry emanating across the desolate landscape. Craftworld Eldar war vehicles painted in the colours of Saim-Hann raced across the moonscape and brought the battle to the Eldar on land, in the sky, and in space. We promptly noped out of there and hid in the Stormraven while waiting for things to die down a little bit. Vercceti, Taric, and Atash were encouraged to parley with the Eldar Farseer and Warlock that had rocked up while Durance wisely chose to stay inside the Stormraven and not start carving our maybe-allies to pieces.
Turns out the gravitic anomalies were the result of Dark Eldar webway gates being activated so that they could plunder the vessels and their cargo for slaves and bounty. The Craftworld Eldar were here to keep their callous kin in check and remind them that they were not the strongest ones here. The Eldar saw no reason to fight us and let us leave while the battle raged below. Needless to say, the squad was quite relieved at that.
So after recovering the survivors of the crash and the data from the Inquisition ship, more political games are bound to be played. They were arriving to conduct a secret investigation in Imperial practices in the area and we were unable to determine exactly what they were looking at. It was probably not good anyway.
The future awaits for this squad as we try and secure the fragile peace of the Sothis system. It might be borderline heretical in a lot of cases but it’s certainly better than nothing.
Putting on pants and being awake to go out is always a hassle, but when it comes to seeing BrisTAYbies, I always find it a worthwhile exercise. 🙂
Plus the new gelato tradition will bring a new age of TAY meats. 😛
The BEST tradition of all!
The worst tradition is that I’m a monster.
What you did in the bar keeps me awake at night. D:
Rest easy. We put it right. As long as we’re always around to keep the malice of Bob in check, the world will be safe from his condiment-related domestic terrorism.
I would have gotten away with it if it wasn’t for you meddling kids!
Was good seeing you again, buddy.
I hadn’t realised how long it had been since I last went to a meat so I felt a little bad about not coming to anything since last year. Shall try and do more stuff this year. 🙂
It was great to see you man, Anton and I had a lot of fun!
Glad you guys enjoyed it. How was Movie World?
https://twitter.com/gingerchris86/status/607714398799413248/photo/1
I was worried we terrified Anton. 😛
Anton’s dealt with the Sydney crew, there is nothing you could expose him to that would be worse than them (or, us, since I’m basically a member).
not at all 🙂 he had fun
Anton, or “Red’s Cosmic Encounter Coalition Victory Buddy”
He keeps winning that way 🙁
Hah, nice.
I finally unseated my friend the Dominion ninja from her perfect streak yesterday, felt good.
Destiny – PS4 Peeps
So some friends and i have just started getting back into destiny after a six month hiatus. and weve never finished the raid… anyone still playing on PS4? we need another guy/girl for the raid, thinking we may attempt it again on the weekend…
let me know!
@coldcamv ?
I have a mate on twitter who was looking for raid buddies for a mate of his. Hit up “finishedlast” on twitter and tell him I sent you.
awesome… only catch is theres already 4-5 of us… how many on his end?
Just one. Finishedlast plays on PS3 with me and Masha, it’s one of his friends
Yeah I still play it, I can try and jump on this weekend if you like, granted Ive only done the raid once and I got carried through it haha
lol youll prob be carrying us…. have i added you to psn?
Im ColdCamV if you haven’t already
just added you
What sort of gearing etc. is necessary for the raid? I quit just after hitting 20 having basically played solo the entire time, and logged briefly back in when the 1st expansion hit only to find I was too low level to actually play anything, but they did give me a free welfare epic so I hit 22.
prob recommend at least 29/30 …. the way it is now, you can gear up to that in about 3 weeks through crucible points/vanguard points.
Thats funny because I got from 20 to 30 in 2 weeks but didnt use vangard points till I was level 30 to hit 32. I got there by having friends help run the strikes and equip everything that has more light and once you level up do the next highest strike and repeat
yeah same here… but now, with enough crucible/vanguard points you can just buy all your legendary gear and go straight to 30 ish
also, where the hell do you find etheric light???
PoE, ToO, Weekly nightfall and iron banner rank 3 and 5, also theres a slim chance you can find it as loot or from legendary engrams
34/35 Prison, Nightfall (if you’re lucky), IB ranks 3 and 5, Trials of Osiris. Kinda seemed like you needed EL to get EL until Iron Banner and third week of 32 Prisons.
I’m only 20 as well if you want to start working through some of it.
For Normal VoG, you should be fine if you can hit 26 or above, really – it’s more mechanics-focused than level focused. If you’ve got some marks lying around, you should get there pretty quick with Vendor gear.
Unless they’re talking about hard mode, in which case a 29 will have a hard time, 30 and up will… have a slightly easier time, but it’ll still be hard. 😛 It still comes down to mechanics and strategy more than level, and being overlevelled for raids doesn’t really mean much in Destiny (with a 34 swordbearer for Crota being a huge glaring exception, for some reason).
@liondrive was talking about running peeps through it on previous Tay.
Add me (cufcfan616) if you’re in need of someone after the people above 😛 I’ve finished both raids a fair amount of times and 3 classes all maxed out except for a 33 hunter. My PS4 is usually switched on over the weekends so just wing me a message if you guys need help. I do have a D&D session from 5pm on Saturday though but any other time, happy to help 🙂
Work whinge, spoilers as no one wants to hear it anymore:
Co worker has to go in to get her gall bladder removed on Thursday. Bosses have said sure, take Thursday day off but you have to come in and work the late night shift.Myself I’ve been reduced to tears twice this morning due to severe abdominal pain. Nope, gotta power through it and don’t dare be sick tomorrow.
This job was never all that bad, boring and irritating but not bad. Lately it’s just turned to shit and have no idea why. The area has a 10% growth on last year and my store has over 40% so it’s not like they’re struggling. Not publicly traded so no investors to please. Management is the same. Can’t figure it out. Just hope new staff for Christ’s sake.
Blows my mind that they seem to lack any kind of compassion or empathy for the people making them money. :S
So how is that police force application going?
I have to wait 4 months for the next intake to commence.
Have you started looking for something else?
It might be time to switch industries entirely.
I have no other skills or qualifications and over 30. Not exactly an employers dream.
So, perhaps it’s time to get one. Even a diploma of frontline management, which you’d smash through, would help you start building up a better resume. Hell, frame the request right, and you may even be able to get it paid for.
Also, you’ve worked in retail for a long time now, see if you can get recognition for prior learning.
And you’ve edited on me. Being employed for a long time in a role with a skill isn’t a detriment on a CV.
What red’s already said, if they’re treating you this badly Freeze any job in another industry is surely better. Abusive jobs are a lot like abusive relationships; you don’t fully realize how bad it is until you get out.
Any idea the source of your pain? You’re not going to have a burst appendix there, are you?
Doubt it. Feels very similar to what my brother describes as his problems as a coeliac which I desperately hope not.
Me too. I’ve just been avoiding ‘trigger’ foods and it’s working out alright. Because fuck getting diagnosed as that then making more dramatic changes.
Man. A half-day off for major surgery. So generous.
Hope your abdominal pain sorts itself out, man. Me, I got that a few years ago. Cut white bread out of my diet entirely pretty much entirely – just for experimentation purposes – and it rarely happens anymore.
How can you be sure that your arch nemesis just stopped trying to poison you? *cough*
I thought punching that jerk in the face had resolved that conflict?
Perhaps it’s the fact you got the time away in Japan and got away from the situation and had a chance to clear your head and realize that it’d been shit for a while?I think you’re way more employable than you give yourself credit for, though. You’ve basically been running a retail store for several years, now.
i could prob leave my work and find another with slightly higher pay, but nothing really beats a good work environment. the extent to which everyone looks out for each other is ridiculous. if someone needs to leave early, or take care of some personal stuff, even take a longer lunch break, everyone puts in the effort to make it happen. Theres only about 5 of us here and were all ex -managers from Data/Electrical wholesale backgrounds, so theres a mutual respect between all of us. rather than having bosses on power trips, we all sort of work on the same playing field to make things happen.
again i could prob find higher pay elsewhere, but a work environment like this, the opportunity rarely strikes twice….
i really feel for you man, ive been in your situation, unfortunately, as much as i hoped itd get better, it didnt until i left
Pretty sure it’s fairly illegal to make someone work the same day they have surgery. She’ll be a bit off from the anaesthetic AND won’t have slept because she was busy having SURGERY.
Also I hope you get your pain sorted out soon!
That’s not a whinge, that’s something that your co worker needs to look into what her rights are. I’m almost certain (in the ‘this doesn’t sound right at all’ kind of way) that this is breaching her rights as an employee in Australia.
Dude that really sucks
So, TAY…
I cbf writing a big essay on my weekend, having slept awfully.
So a Tuesday morning Question (because it’s Tuesday Morning for six more minutes here)
How’s things? What projects are you working on?
Child proofing.
We just get things almost sorted and she discovers a new trick on how to get into things. Need to go and get a new chest of drawers as she has worked out that she can fit her hands into the drawer and pull things out. It has a gap at the top of the drawer so you can open them.
Otherwise not much project wise, keep thinking of things I might want to do but time prevents me.
I’m trying to write a broker relationship officer document for part of the claims strategic marketing committee that the regional manager originally started as a pet project but somehow got added to his performance goals for the year so now it’s become a major focus for him. The actual broker relationship officers (who we refer to as BROs until a better acronym can be found – CLO for Claims Liason Officer feels like a forced attempt to get away from BRO so it hasn’t caught on yet) are kind of flying blind but seem to be getting along alright.
We’re thinking of transitioning from our current legal fee audit service to a new service. The tender is being handled by home office in New Jersey so out here in the APZ we’re just providing “valued feedback”, i.e.: being shown the saddle before they strap it on. On the upside, it’s a very nice saddle and I will feel good about wearing it. Apparently our old contract has an option to expire in 2017 so next year will be when the bulk of the transition will take place. The cool part is that to avoid double-dipping on costs incurred by the audit service, our audit costs will probably be absorbed into the budget for the project which could potentially save our branch a couple hundred k next year, on top of whatever savings we enjoy by the new service being cheaper/more efficient.
This also saves me from having to finish documenting how to use the current audit service administration manual (as the only person who knows how to use it since the last guy left and I was saddled with the responsibility of overseeing it, though admittedly the duties only really extend to basically paying the bill once a month then running reports twice a a year).
We’re in the midst of quarterly litigated file reviews, another task I inherited alongside the audit service administration. It’s mainly just scheduling time with our solicitors but it makes me feel important.
Occasionally I get to investigate and settle liability claims, which is apparently still my job. \o/
Any expenses you can pass onto a project are good, unless you’re the one managing the project $$
If home office want to volunteer to eat our audit costs for a year then we are going to let them!
I’m on a 6 week project to convince myself to study so I don’t miss my deadline for my exam and assignment at the end of the month. So far I’m about 86% complete on the convincing part of the project. Will keep you posted!
Work Project: Scanning fi-ZzzZZZzzzz. What? Sorry, looks like I fell asleep over how boring that was.
Games project: I want to build a metal building in Ark. No, it will never happen.
Personal project: I wrote 600 words, and then deleted them.
I also slept awfully. The last hour or so of my sleep was me sleeping through my alarm… and dreaming about trying – in vain – to turn off my alarm for that entire hour, with the alarm having intruded significantly into the dream. Nothing I did worked (for obvious reasons), which made for a whole lot of frustration and stress.
My project is choosing a project. I’ve realized I don’t have one, and that’s not good enough. If I can manage work projects, why not personal ones? I have simply defaulted to non-work being lazytime for relaxation. Unproductive!
Yeah, my home stuff has been project free, at least in terms of “not building anything.” I’ve decided I may cosplay for PAX after all, so I’m starting to spec out what I’d need to make a Pip-Boy…
Ugh. Work-wise is me going through and trying to poke holes in financial affairs of people. I hate trust structures so very much.
Outside of work though, just going through and keeping track of a few stories and stuff. Still figuring out details and mechanics for a little RPG system I’ve been working on but is nowhere near completion. But each little step makes it that tiny bit better.
Umm *looks around*… Beard?
90% sure that I’m going to model Cambridge railway station (hometown, so lots of memories). Now I just need to figure out what period and, more importantly, how much space I’ll need for it and where in the house it could go 😀 next stop, lots of internet research and drawing up of plans.
Fun fact, the railway bridge at Cambridge station was at the time it was built (1980s) the longest covered cycle bridge in the World
So the weekend. Was probably good on average.
Saturday my alarm clock slept in because she has a cold so I was running late to work so I drove in rather than taking PT. Which worked out well in the end as Mrs Tigs had a dentist appointment so I was able to get home early so she could get to that.
Got to play with Tiglet for a while while Mrs Tigs was at the dentist. That didn’t go so well so expensive and troublesome, but at least things are getting sorted.
Sunday had a fairly casual morning and once Tiglet woke up spent the hour loading the car and headed over to @negativeZero’s place for some boardgames. Was a fun day, got to meat @mad_danny and play some games. Started with some escape from the cursed temple which is a real-time dice rolling game. Mad_danny and Greenius manged to escape the temple but Negs and I are bloated corpses forever doomed to float in the flooded temple.
The guys then played labyrinth card game while I tried to get Tiglet to sleep.
We then took the role of executioners during the french revolution while playing Guillotine. Many a head was taken, although we did get half way through a days quota before we found out they were the wrong people. So we just replaced the remaining people with new ones so no innocent people were executed. Well there was still one innocent victim but who is counting. Mad_danny managed to win that one in the end although he had singled out Greenius as a target. With that Greenius packed his bags and headed home in a huff. At least I think he traveled by huff, might have been car, train or map though.
Then we decided to play something else and Neg brought out a Japanese? card game caleld Machi Koro. It was at this stage we found out the terrible mistake we had made during the game of Guillotine. Of those innocent victims that we executed, well one had the favour of the RNG gods. So they abandoned us. Machi Koro you basically by buildings that have a number on them and then if you roll that number on the dice good things happened. I went for a country boy strategy and massed the ranches and the cheese factories. Danny went for the forestry/mines/furniture factory route and Neg being the wonderful host he is went for convenience. I needed to roll 7 to dominate, Danny needed to roll 8. Between us we muct have rolled well over a dozen 7 and 8s. Unfortunately (or fortunately if you were Neg) I rolled all the 8s and Danny rolled all the 7s. It got to the stage that in one turn all 3 of the other players rolled 7 and I still couldn’t.
Let this be a lesson, don’t execute those with the favour of the RNG gods.
Tiglet woke up about half way through so once that was done we packed up and headed towards home. Stopped off on the way to grab some fish and chips for tea.
Monday woke up and started work. Got half way through my work day before I realised that it was a public holiday. We went and had a play down the park, I finished a bird story, played a few random things and did a whole bunch of cleaning/sorting/discarding. So all in all a positive weekend.
That Machi Koro game was easily the most amusing I’ve ever played. One of you needing an 8 to win and only rolling 7s, the other needing a 7 to win and only rolling 8s. What was it, five rounds in a row where that happened?
Yeah I think it was something like that. I had given up hoping for a 7, just laughing at how ridiculous it was. Although I thought Danny was going to cry on that last 7 he rolled
crying would have been fine – I worry more about if I laugh to the point of auto-asphyxia because I don’t get any air intake, and scare anyone who thinks I’m passing out or seizing… I have learned to be extra wary of ‘co-op’ videogames like BroForce and TowerFall >.<
that aside though, methinks I should definitely put in a pre-order for a Deluxe Edition of Machi Koro for my other gaming group! 😀
It was certainly memorable
Mrs Tigs and I were looking at that Deluxe edition as well
Useful thing with MilSims; I just put in a preorder to ensure there’s enough stock come September, but don’t have to worry about paying til I pick it up in store (in case Australia gets shafted on distribution again) – looking at info about it I think it may also possibly come with the special purple cards which were originally just meant for the first edition of one of the expansions (except the Deluxe set will have cards in the correct sizes, unlike some of the first edition extras :p)
Dental work is best done asap no matter the cost. I am not one to follow this advice and have needed a couple of teeth replacing for several years now as well as a wisdom tooth removing. There’s nothing like a crap dentist at a young age putting you off going back for a decade or two.
Also, starting work and then realising you don’t have to? That’s a bingo
Yeah, she got it done and the tablets she needed.
It had been put of for a little as she was trying to find a good one, wasn’t happy with the last one we were going to.
Stayed up late last night playing ARK despite having to do an exam this morning.
Worth i-zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Sure you’ll hit that 8%?
It’s multiple choice so he is planning on sleeping on his desk and hoping his drool smudges the ink on the correct answers
I did literally no study and instead played ARK! \o/
Weekend Summary:
Spent basically all day Saturday slacking off and trying to avoid doing anything like tidying. Played a bit of the Witcher but I’m kind of afraid to touch it now, because I open it up and suddenly it’s eight hours later and it’s 4am and I’m about to pass out.
Finished up the bulk of the Novigrad stuff then headed to Skellige and started stuff there. Was surprisingly not feeling it that much either, mainly because the relationship between Geralt and Yennefer seems incomprehensible. She acts like a complete bitch to him a lot of the time but he seems not to even notice. I don’t feel any chemistry between them or anything. The unicorn sex must be amazing because I can’t see why they’re together at all.Had a great time playing board games with @greenius, @mad_danny and Mr & Mrs @tigerion on Sunday. Also had some other friends over for further board gaming yesterday. Mainly played Roll For the Galaxy. I’m a big fan of Race For the Galaxy but it does get a bit unweildy with all those cards. Roll is great, though it’s confusing at first when you start playing (and it turned out we were doing it wrong the whole first game too). Feels maybe a bit too randomized though.
After @jimu talking about it and everything I ended up unable to resist the siren’s call of Dank Sails and decided to revisit it, also playing a sorcerer build. Found an interesting guide online to try and get set up early on, so gave it a try. Played 4 hours last night. Stomped my way through the Asylum, went down to Blighttown via the Valley of the Drakes using the master key. Died like four times because I’d kind of lost the muscle memory on the movement and because the framerate there has some really dire drops and there’s issues with getting poison / toxic from the enemies, but on about the fifth attempt, secured the Crimson robes and the Tin Banishment Catalyst. Managed to do all those attempts without losing any souls too, so I had enough to grab a second set of Soul Arrows and Heavy Soul Arrows from the vendor in New Londo. Proceeded around Undead Burg, killed the black knight in there. Beat Havel on the third attempt (would have gotten him the first time but got stuck on geometry and clubbed to death). Taurus Demon took about 3 goes too, had issues a couple of times with the lock-on targeting suddenly un-locking and my heavy soul arrows missing (had a couple clip right through the fucker and do no damage, and you really need to hit him and stagger him to keep him off you). Went through to the cathedral area, killed the fang boar and the tower knight, got the basement key. Went down and freed the sorcerer trainer dude, then farmed souls and picked up the Great Soul Arrow and Great Heavy Soul Arrow and the Bellowing Dragoncrest Ring off him. Haven’t dumped much into stats at all yet – 18 int, single point of strength for the Tin Banishment Catalyst and enough attunement for 5 slots. Not sure what I’ll do next – might try and get a better casting catalyst (using Tin Banishment for its melee ability, Sorcerer’s for casting). I think next best one that I can access is the Oolacile Ivory Catalyst from Dusk, which would require going into Darkroot Basin and beating the Hydra and the Crystal Golem, which would require going back to the Asylum and getting the ring from there.
Geralt and Yennefer have a very complicated relationship. It started from a wish that Geralt made in order to stop a Djinn that Yennefer was trying to capture going on a complete rampage and killing everyone. It is detailed in the book “The Last Wish”. They might not meant to be together but are because of that wish..Priscilla’s song was about that situation.
That kind of makes sense I guess. I think also it doesn’t help that I’ve only played the games, so the one that he has history (and feels like he has chemistry) with is Triss, not Yennefer (who came out of nowhere suddenly)Aye and what a song! That said I wanted to punch Dandelion for going around publishing Geralt’s personal life =,=
Their whole relationship is kind of odd but if you pay attention in one of the side quests Geralt describes his infatuation with her kind of like this – He’s never been one for the easy life, to slow down and settle and he kind of links his constant strife with the world to why he’s chosen a woman who’s isn’t easy on him either. It is worth remembering that prior to the events of the Witcher 2; Ciri took both Yennefer and Geralt away to an alternate reality akin to paradise where they both stayed together for quite some time before the Wild Hunt attacked them. So they do have a strong history but that said how much of it is the wish Geralt made and how much of it is genuine affection is up to you in the side quest. It’s kind of sad as you spend so much of the 2nd game and even the start of this game trying to figure out the deal with Yennefer but she turns out to be a total cow at the end of all of it. One of the first things that gave it away for me was how she treats Geralt when she finds him in White Orchard, like how she’s completely indifferent to seeing him again while he’s been trekking all over the place to find her. It is worth noting as well Yennefer is very subtle in her appreciation of Geralt, like how she reacts to his constant compliments. Even though she’s condescending and keeps him at arms length whenever Geralt openly shows affection for her she’s taken aback by it even if she pushes it to the side.Worth also remembering that Yennefer is the dominant one in their relationship- she’s crazy powerful, and Geralt is one of the few people who can pierce that.To be fair Triss is also quite powerful; however as you put it Yennefer likes to stay in control while Triss is more submissive, not to say she’ll just do what you want but she treats you more like a partner. Case in point she consults with you before making decisions while Yennefer expects you to follow through on her decisions and follow her lead in cleaning up any ensuing mess. That said I feel CDPR could’ve done more justice to Yennefer if they showed more interactions between her and Geralt before forcing you into that decision.As far as my playthrough goes, I’ve been leaning toward actually sticking with Triss. It feels like there’s actually a genuine connection between her and Geralt that goes both ways. Also she doesn’t treat him like shit. Also I imported my save from The Witcher 2 which carried over my save from the first game, and so the way I’d played it through there made more sense for Geralt and Triss to be together. Yennefer comes out of nowhere, treats him with utter indifference and generally acts like a bitch. Their relationship feels like an employer and an underling. Doesn’t work for me even if there’s some history I don’t know about.I’ve not reached any sort of decision point there, I’m still sidequesting around Velen. Triss is introduced as having a crush on Geralt in the books, but Geralt/Yennefer is the OTP.Tin Banishment? Nooooo. Take a decent dex based weapon and go down to the Blacksmith at the entrance to New Londo and get him to make you a magic weapon. Scales with INT and deals magic damage. Can get a bunch of green titanite from the bottom of Blighttown where you went down. Much better damage and you can swap to other catalysts which are more powerful including the wooden from memory.
Tin Banishment is like 150 melee which is better than anything I can create right now. I always intended to ditch it, but it happens to also be at the same place as the robes. I don’t have time to farm up a Balder Side Sword to replace it, and also it has a really low stat requirement which is a bonus.
I used the Drake tail until I got the Moon tail.
200 attack worked for a long while.
I thought about it but I don’t have a bow. Can’t aim soul spears at the tail can you?
I bought a prissy cheap bow
Dark Souls – How to get the Drake Sword: https://youtu.be/cEVdcdXNowU
I could only ever hit the tail from a distance, whenever it swung in my face I missed, so it took me double the time.
I know how to get it, just didn’t want to have to invest souls into a bow and then have to boost strength a ton just to use it. That’s the real reason why Tin Banishment is good – I’ve instead been able to invest a ton of souls into getting my spells & dragoncrest ring early. Want to start wrecking enemies ASAP.
The bow I bought didn’t require I invest any extra points into dex or str that I wasn’t already going to for the equipment I’d eventually be using
Just a low level bow, sold in that first area.
@jimu: yeah but the drake sword requires 16 strength to wield one-handed. I’d have to spend 6 soul levels on it. I’m not sure it’s worth it compared to just getting a decent weapon and swapping it to int scaling.
I guess I’d probably need the strength and dex eventually regardless though if I make an int-scaling weapon. You ended up making a magic weapon to replace your drake sword, right? What did you use?
I just went with the Moon blade(?) Seath’s tail (which was a birch to get, have to free aim spells)
Such a great weekend.
Friday night: up to 2am playing Destiny. Xur sells a chest engram, so I go to buy a bunch but only manage to fit one at a time. So I wander back to Rahool with the one engram I purchased. Purifier Robes! You know, Rahool, you’re alright. Also did a 34 prison at some point. Etheric light #2 into Fatebringer. Spent the rest of the night enjoying it, but spent the next few days regretting not using to ascend my warlock helm, now that I have purifier robes.
Saturday: Slept in until 10:30. Spent the rest of the day playing Witcher 3. Switched to Destiny around 8pm, and a friend wanted to give the 35 Prison a shot. Got melted at round two with 3x 34s. So we dialed it back and took on the 34, and 90 minutes later, EL#3 went into my hunter’s boots. Was up to around 2am trying to help @liondrive and friends with Crota.
Sunday: Slept in until 10:30 again. Spent the rest of the day playing Witcher 3. Checked who was online around 7:30, didn’t see anyone on Destiny so stuck to Witcher until around 11:30, then dropped in for a few bounties.
Monday: Slept in until 9:30, trying to get my body clock back to normal for today. Witcher 3 all day, Destiny 7pm-1am. Got through my third 34 Prison for the week, EL #4 in the vault, and will likely go into my warlock’s CE helm.
Neat witcher 3 thing I found in Velen:
So, at some point, you (and a few bandits? miners? can’t rightly remember) are ambushed by 3-4 level 9 alghouls. At this point, I was about level 7, and got absolutely wrecked. I figured I’d go in, unlock the quest, then bugger off until I hit level 10 or so. Forgot about it for a long time. Came back as a level 15, to find no alghouls, and one very angry level 13 peasant. Turns out “running away” is an action they accounted for… Umm… sorry, mate, I kinda got sidetracked… for fifteen hours or so…Finally got to Novigrad around the 39-40 hour mark. Upped the difficulty to the second-easiest setting, to see what the difference was… I take slightly more damage, and can’t quite take on things 5 levels higher than me, but Quen makes the difference barely noticeable. Now 41 hours in, still enjoying myself and mostly ignoring the central Novigrad questline.
So <3 Witcher 3. I’m actually really loving encounters with humans, if only because I’m so overpowered that if a conversation goes bad and I start the combat surrounded, the first sword slash tends to bifurcate or eviscerate the closest three opponents in a gross demonstration of the overpoweredness of the Witcher.
Taking that early cinematic trailer to heart.
“W–what are you doing?”
“Killing monsters.“
That was a great trailer. I have killed many monsters thus far. Some of them with the silver sword.
Axii is amazing, tho. So many confrontations I’ve just avoided entirely through medieval Jedi mind-tricks – “You should go home and rethink your life.” 😛 Sadly, I keep thinking back to Dragon Age: Inquisition, which I remember tiring of around the 35 hour mark, and quit around the 48 hour mark. Witcher somehow still feels fresh and full of interesting things to do after 41 hours. And that baron quest… them feels.
Thought I’d finished it on a sad note, with Anna’s (albeit somewhat peaceful) death, and went to collect my money. And they twisted the knife. Read some of the alternate resolutions… and apparently it coulda been worse. Yeesh.The big difference I think is the writing. DA:I had pretty good writing for the character subquests and the main quests, but everything else was a boring lifeless MMO-style fetch quest or whatever and the world felt dull and empty as a result. The Witcher, you just never know. Sidequests can turn out to be absolutely epic in scope and some of them are amazingly well written. The whole world feels lived-in and carefully constructed and dense with things going on. I think that what they’ve ended up making is what Bioware was trying to make in DA:I but they just never got it to work.
Also when you think about it, the Witcher is very oldschool RPG in its design. Bioware’s stuff almost straddles the line between Western and Japanese RPG nowadays, but The Witcher feels like it’s much more of an evolution of old classic western RPGs like Ultima or Daggerfall or the like. Detail in the world, NPCs having a daily routine, proper day/night cycle and stuff. Things that take a ton of work to simulate and so most modern 3D RPGs don’t bother.
Oh god, the detail. You can really tell the world is hand crafted. Example, there’s this road going from the Meadery in the north east, heading north-west (iirc) that weaves past wheat fields, around this big ol’ tree, with a small path going off to the left to a small house. It’s amazingly picturesque. And the orchards outside Novigrad with the strikingly white leaved trees, the glade in the middle of the dense forest in central Velen… The whole world is just beautifully put together. The roads/paths feel like they were placed after the terrain was designed, and they make sense with the terrain.
I keep stopping to take screenshots… likely why I’m over 40 hours in, and still one main questline beyond the prologue. 😛
Re: Dragon Age comparisons: I think where Dragon Age falls down is where a lot of other people seem to think its strength is. Player avatar. There’s a big difference between role-playing a fully-realized character with pre-determined motivations and manner, than trying to leave a blank slate open to any and all available reactions and attitudes. It ironically limits what you can do with storytelling, because you have to allow for more to avoid making the player feel like they aren’t their avatar anymore. When you have a fixed character who is their own person – like Geralt, or to an extent Shepard – the story is THEIR story, not yours. I’ve never understood the fixation with self-insertion in RPGs, but to my mind that self-insertion aspect of a fantasy always comes at the sacrifice of powerful storytelling.
Agree. And it’s also why I strongly dislike the idea of silent protagonists as well.
Well, I’ve preferred to use Axii wherever possible to make quieter entrances and so forth so as not to get crime lords and so forth off-side…
The only people I deliberately provoke into suicide-by-witcher are the temple guard and witch-hunters. Because fuck those guys.
I make a point of shouldering every witch hunter out of my way, even if he isn’t in my way.
Good to hear I’m not the only one.
You can piss some of them off by using igni and stuff in their presence, but they’re very powerful and always respawn, it doesn’t seem to make any difference. It’s sad. I just want to run them all out of the country.
Axii is also incredibly useful against flying enemies as it either causes them to drop to the ground or to stay stationery for you to shoot them down!
And Alghouls! Only figured that one out by accident – was fumbling for Quen in a mad panic, and suddenly its spines were down. Took a few tries to repeat the act and figure out what I’d done. 😛
I generally just use Aard for flying creatures. I occasionally miss and either look like an idiot or get knocked on my arse, but it’s good fun.
Sadly, it doesn’t work on higher-level sirens and harpies, like Ekidna or Eynira. 🙁 They just hover instead of plummeting.
Yep that’s when you pull out the crossbow and shoot em at which point they dive bomb the ground and you can stab them! =D
Whatsisname… Err, Lambert? Mocked me about that line. Made me cry. Dammit, guy.Lambert’s an assholeHe really is, but I still have a soft spot for him. I really can’t explain it.I really feel like I should bump up the difficulty since I haven’t used any healing whatsoever since level 6, I’m now 19. I’m enjoying it too much however and upping the difficulty seemed to do nothing but make the fights longer so fairly certain I’m happy to keep cruising along.
Do you have the health regen perk?
Only put points into fast attack, arrow deflection, roll damage reduction, a few alchemy ones and delusion.
Fucking archers. I cackled maniacally the first time I deflected an arrow back at one of them.
Also, doesn’t your health regen on meditation on the lower difficulties?
Maybe? I’ve only really meditated when it’s made me or it tells me to wait until a specific time.
I’ve died a few times and reloaded a few missions (including one horse race nearly 30 times as it kept bugging out on me) but on the whole the combat is pretty simple and enemies signal their attacks by emailing you a notice a week in advance.
To: Geralt@whitewolf.com
RE: Incoming attack
Dear Mr of Rivia
This email is just a quick note to inform you that we will be attacking you next tuesday. Please ensure your affairs are in order.
Kind Regards
Stjepan
Stjepan Bircher
Lieutenant Thug
East Velen Bandits
I love that you tagged someone.
@freezespreston it’s OK he hasn’t commented for like 12 months
On easy and normal, your health regenerates to full when you meditate, even for just an hour. Hard and above, it doesn’t.
On all difficulties, meditation refills your potions by sacrificing a strong alcohol eg. alcohest. Useful for when eg. you run out of Cat because you’ve spent a long time in a cave.
Fair enough. Once I hit about 35 hours, I felt that I didn’t really mind if something took me a little longer than I intended – all quests seem to do that anyway, and I’m not really complaining – I’m kinda resigned to the fact that I’ll be playing this for 10-20 hours every weekend for the next couple of months. 😀
Currently level 17, and only really had trouble with a couple of contracts, both were 4-6 levels above me, and resulted in fairly epic boss fights. Especially one time I did my research and spent an hour hunting all over Velen for Mistletoe
to make Relict Oil to face a Chort, and came back to fight it, completely forgetting to apply the oil before the fight. I consumed about 15 water bottles during that fight, but had a blast with it.Don’t doubt I’d have felt a little differently had it killed me, tho, so I’ll probably stick to this difficulty level for the foreseeable future.
<3 Blade oils! I’m in love with the perk combo that allows your blade oils to never use up charges or expire, and that gives you resistances to damage from whatever creature type you’ve targeted with your oils. That, plus the one which increases the effect of mutagens slotted is fantastic, my 3x green, 3x blue, 6x red. Such stat-tweaking! It is lurverly. I never have to take off my hanged-man oil on my steel sword… extra 50% bonus damage to humans. So much cleaving people in twain.
I think the latest patch fucked up mutagens though. It no longer lets me combine three lesser into a normal or three normal into a greater one because I already have one. Used to be able to create as many as you had the ingredients for.
DARK SOULS 3
http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2015/06/06/a-closer-look-at-the-dark-souls-3-leak/
Forbes have decided the leak is probably legit.
Obviously, this is just more commentary, and nothing official, but reads relatively interestingly for a surface level analysis.
@freezespreston, this bit will probably interest you.
DIRK SMALLS FWEE
It’s the level of polish on the screen shots. If indicative of game play and not bullshots than means game has been in development for a good long while which would mean Miyazaki wasn’t involved.
There’s no reason why he couldn’t have been involved in two games at once at a design level.
Could be that. Or might be that he divided his time.
You may be right. But there’s no real point going back and forth over rumours. Hopefully E3 will offer some confirmation!
Just when the Bloodborne daily updates end, Dark Souls 3 daily updates start!
Despite the fact that I’m not Splatooning for ten hours a day any more, I still haven’t gotten to bed til 5 the last three nights because of it. I mean yeah, the first one I was playing the game still (doesn’t help that new gear comes into the stores at midnight, so I have something to level up again), but then last night I had the idea of trying to draw a thing for a miiverse post, so that took a good couple of hours.
The night before, I got talking about the music on the sunken scroll with some friends. Then this ended up happening.
HANDSOME! 😀
And talented.
I suppose I should swoon now? *swoon*
Nah 😛
*grabs popcorn*
So found out a bunch of my friends brought ESO for the PS4 and plan to all play together, however im hesitant to buy it after the kerfuffle that was the original launch and the flopping of the PC version. Taybies! Lend me your yay or nays towards this
It’s a decent enough game though multi is kinda awkward at early levels. Once you get past 15(?) it opens up a lot.
I was thinking the same thing. Let me know how it goes if you take the plunge (and if you can now actually log in)
Wondering just how many little pop culture nods I’ve missed through inattention I’m Witcher 3.
Last night
The strumpets were quoting Madonna lyrics at me and the Novigrad fight club champion is named Durden the Tailor. Remember a Fifty Shades one a whole back too. And that swordsmith Hattori making dumplings. Plus a heap more.Hahah yeah picked up on the swordsmith and brawler’s guild one =] There’s so much attention to detail in the game it’s not funny. So many little things that you could completely miss if you weren’t paying attention!
Haha! I approved of the excited text message last night about one of these references! 😀
Found a Monty Python one:
Needed to go into a cave to kill a monster. Get to the entrance and there’s a Snow Hare surrounded by shitloads of skeletons at the entrance. Thought it might be a fluke but it never left the area, and was indestructible.I beat up a bunch of Nietzschean dickheads wrecking shrine. Started going on about the “Overman” to me, and referencing Master Freidrich.I had a chuckle at the one where a mage purchases a magical tower, and ends up trapped inside it thanks to a flaw in the ‘Defensive Regulatory Magicon’, which is undone by making use of the ‘Gottfried’s Omni-opening Grimore’.That sounds amazing but I don’t get it.
‘Defensive Regulatory Magicon’ (DRM) designed to protect the tower from intruders ended up causing more problems for the legitimate owner. Fortunately, it was removed by ‘Gottfried’s Omni-opening Grimoire’ (GOG).It’s a jab at game publishers using DRM, and a nod to Good Old Games. 🙂
Right, I’m a dumbass.
That is absolutely brilliant! XD
I picked up on Hattori. The rest… I think I hear something flying over my head every once in a while.I need a genuine expression of interest on who would be interested in having a TAY ARK server.
I’m still confirming the requirements and running costs, but from what I’ve found it’s not going to be the cheapest server to run. Some quick research points between between $40-$50 AUD a month for a hosted server, but finding one that hosts in Australia has been hard, so I’m looking into using Amazon Web Services, which I already use to run a couple of personal servers.
So,
1 – Who is interested and WANTS a dedicated TAY server?
2 – Once costing is confirmed, is anyone interested/willing to chip in? If it’s going to cost too much, I’m going to scrap it altogether.
@rize @blaghman @f4ction @rocketman @sernobulus @pixel_the_ferret_viking @gorzilla @powalen
I’m happy to just keep using the public servers for now. Honestly don’t really see myself playing this for long enough to bother with a private server. That’s just me though.
What Pow said.
I have bought the game, but haven’t installed/played yet. If I enjoy it, would be interested in the TAY server, and would be happy to chip in a little bit.
If you guys had a private server for it I’d be actually interested and willing to chip in if needed.Just saw the game is early access.
Nope.
Yeah, that’s why I don’t really want to put more money into it if I can avoid it 😛
If it wasn’t Early Access I’d be yelling at all of you to get it immediately.
I’m in the same boat I think. If it has a massive discount as a daily deal during the sale I might grab it, otherwise I’ll wait until after release
I think the short answer is “It might be worth it in the future when it’s more built up, but hold off for now and see how things go”
^^ this
Reminder that @Sughly’s game Anna’s Quest has a July 2 release date now!
Wowee!
Where where where where WHERE DO I THROW THIS MONEY IT’S BOUNCING OFF THE SCREEN RIGHT NOW I NEED TO KNOW WHERE I BUY IT FROM BEFORE THE COINS CRACK THIS SCREEN MORE THAN THEY ALREADY HAVE
Haha! I too would like to pre-order! *glares at @sughly* 😛
Glare at Daedalic! I have no idea 🙁
Has anyone here ever heard of/used crackle.com? Stream old movies and TV shows and as far as I can tell it works in Australia and is free…and doesn’t need a signup. I feel like there’s a hidden catch but I can’t see it.
Yeah I used to use crackle on my iPhone, it’s great for older movies like you say though I got rid of it after a few weeks cos I’d watched most of the content =p During my time with it though I never came across any kind ‘catch’ as you put it? That said this was almost 2 years ago!
Crackle is free? There’s an app for it on my Apple TV, I just assumed a subscription was needed. Maybe I was getting it confused with Crunchyroll.
Technically crunchyroll is free too =P
“Technically”? In what way?
I jumped on the website and clicked a random movie and it started playing it. As far as I could tell it was going to be the whole movie (with no ads due to Adblocker), and I didn’t create an account or log in etc.
Well, might have to investigate further.
I have nothing superurgent due for the first time all year! And Mr. Strange is away for the night so I’m celebrating by buying the Dragon Age Inquisition DLC to play after the kids are in bed.
I’ve started working on @bdkiaf’s red, black, Harley Quinn thing too and I’m super excited about it. If it works the way I’m envisioning it, it will be pretty awesome.
Who’s this lady?
It is Strange! She has returned from the diamond mines with a most terrible truth!
Strange is a lady?!
http://i.imgur.com/7j15tXU.jpg
just wanted to clarify my post from the destiny post… am i right about this, or is The Taken King included in the season pass???
Nah it’s separate; Bungie have always stated the Season Pass would only cover the TDB and HoW DLC.
woa and 40 bucks? was thinking about buying season pass today, but now bungie can jam it…. will wait till TTK is out, where inevitably they will drop the cost of the season pass…
why the hell would they intentionally split the player base so many ways???
Regardless of splitting…why the hell is it so expensive?
Because presumably it has at least twice as much content as HoW/TDB.
Note that when you’re upgrading items with Etheric Light is specifies that this is to take items to the damage/light cap for “year one”. The Taken King will be the start of Destiny “year two” which means it’s the first real expansion on the base game instead of side content. This means not only will it advance the story of the first game, it will likely include substantially more locations, multiplayer maps, etc.
But I’ll want to see some more announcements. TTK will be the point where I either double down on my Destiny addiction, or make a clean break from it.
The leaks really don’t give off an impression of a great deal of new content
That being said it’s a leak, I wouldn’t expect much. Im thinking mercury as a new planet, new raids and level 40 cap
Yeah I’m quite pissed off at that as well, and what’s the bet the leak is in USD, so 40 = AUD 52, which will get rounded up to $60 because of Aussie tax for sure. If this leak had come out last week before I picked up the season pass to check out HoW I would’ve skipped on the game all together. This means if I want to keep playing I got to give Bungie another 60 bucks in September and then another 25 bucks per the other 2 DLC they have remaining to release. Effectively turning it into a subscription based game.
It’s BS pure and simple and while I was on the edge with PoE and HoW I’m definitely in the “Bungie can get fucked” column now and probably for all time. They’re going to be treated the same way I treat CoD games which is I’ll pick one up when I have absolutely nothing else to play.
Edit: I feel like Bungie are treating Destiny like a cash cow and milking the player base before establishing a good rapport with them. To date patches seem to be sketchy, long asked for tools/utilities are still to be introduced (case in point that inventory app) and content is still too grindy. They’re milking the franchise before fixing the problems they already have and winning back the player base they’ve lost since launch. I’m really quite disappointed and irritated for thinking they were improving with HoW. Fool me twice; shame on me.
Wait and see. Remember this was leaked and you don’t necessarily have the full picture. All we know is there’s a new patch coming with a raid, it might have a specific title, and it’s $40, but we don’t know what that $40 is getting. Destiny 2 is probably another year away, and if you were to assume a September 2016 release for it, that’s still a long time between Sep 2015 and Sep 2016. Easily enough that it could be that you’re paying $40 US for a season pass with 3 parts.
Alternatively maybe it actually is $40. Activision may be greedy but they’re not insane. They’re highly unlikely to try and put out an upgrade that only has the same amount of content as, say, Dark Below, and try and charge double for it.
Either it’s an expansion with a whole chunk of new content and they’re only revealing part of it at E3, or it’s a sequence of patches of similar size to the last two DLC entries and $40 is the bundle cost.
Ahem:
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2014/08/talk-amongst-yourselves-287/comment-page-3/#comment-2837624
Let it not be said I didn’t call it.
You at all interested in continuing playing for the short term?
I’m just in it for something to do and I feel like playing a shooter.
Yeah I’ll keep playing probably until the Taken King comes out especially given I’ve already bought the content + 3 month PS Plus sub I’d be stupid to quit on principle after giving them my money. However I doubt I’ll be continuing with Destiny when the next xpac comes out.
Yeah, it really depends on what they do.
If it continues with the kinda value for money, or less, of the current dlc then nope. The only reason I bought HoW was a $20 EB voucher I was otherwise never gonna use, making HoW $5 in my mind.
I’d love to keep playing indefinitely, but only if they pull their head out of their asses and stop extorting the playerbase.
Which I blame on Activision more than Bungie: I have no doubt Acti set the prices for DLC.
The content itself tho is all on Bungie.
Yeah I’m sure Activision are behind pricing but once again it’s also up to Bungie to justify the price tag with on-going service and solid content. As some peeps have already said the DLC so far feel like they should’ve been released with the game at launch, then there would’ve definitely been plenty to do and I would’ve felt confident investing further for future DLC/XPACS.
That’s DLC in a nutshell: Selling you a game part now and part later for more money.
Tis why I don’t purchase it as a general rule.
And like I said back when: as fun as Destiny is, and it is a whole lot of fun, it’s also looking like the poster child for that kinda crap.
But time will tell. If they have not learned then this next xpack will probably tank and they will have to start.
Or just blame it on someone else.
But what makes a big DLC package like this any different from an oldschool expansion pack?
@negativezero
It really depends on how much you get, which we don’t know yet.
I did not buy many xpacks back in the day, I’d only be able to compare it to Blizzard ones: Starcraft, Warcraft, WoW xpacks.
For Star/Warcraft you got almost as much as the original game and while WoW is a different beast the Xpacks tended to be pretty hefty. They were almost a new game created with largely existing assets and engine.
And Xpacks were not generally planned before a game even released as far as I know, but more as result of it’s success after the fact. Not even WoW had the arrogance to call itself a “10 year game” on the drawing board.
But I try to judge things on their own merit. Was TDB worth $25 imo? Nope. This upcoming ‘Comet’? Shall have to see.
Eurogamer’s pointing out that the timeframe for this stuff ties in with the internal documents leaked a while back about the ‘comet’ expansion, and in that case they were talking 12 new story missions, four strikes and six new multiplayer maps, plus a new location. Add to that a raid and new subclasses and it starts to sound pretty substantial, close to the amount of content that was in Destiny itself at launch. Which was a woeful amount of content, mind you, but still…
For that content I’d pay $30ish.
Consider that all the new story missions I’ve seen so far are in pre-existing locations with the same old enemies and go here, kill this plot – that’s the kinda thing I’d more expect released for free, maybe 2 missions a month, to keep people interested and playing.
Then for the paid DLC, give us maybe 3 strikes, a raid (or equivalent) and a bunch of PvP maps and a new game mode, polished and stable, for $20ish AUD and they’d have a deal.
And make the strikes relevant while they are at it: maybe make it so you need to complete a nightfall tier on each to collect a thing to build a key to get into the raid or something.
Not a half dozen copy/paste story missions, one strike, a broken raid and a couple maps for a third of the base game cost.
I guess I am comparing to what else in gaming land you can get for the money.
Magica 2 is $23 on psn brand new for example. I could go buy the Witcher 3 for $60 probably.
Wrt splitting the playerbase: They made TDB PVP maps available to everyone when HoW launched, made it possible to reach level cap without buying the DLC so people without could still enjoy Iron Banner. But, if you don’t own the content (story, strikes, raids and arenas), you can’t play it. I’m afraid I don’t see the issue with that… isn’t that how an expansion to an MMO would normally work?
Except Bungie have been adamant Destiny isn’t an “MMO” =p
We don’t know for sure that that’s the pricing, and we don’t know for sure that ‘the taken king’ isn’t just one chunk of a larger thing, like maybe it’s Destiny 1.5: The Taken King, and it’s in three parts with a season pass for $40 or something. Too early to run around assuming the sky is falling. Worth it to wait for actual details to emerge at E3.
But yeah, not covered in the season pass. Season pass was for ‘year one’ and the next expansion is ‘year two’ content. Which is kind of shit but whatever, I got the DLC with my copy of the game and didn’t even get to play the story bits for the first one because I’m not good enough yet 🙁
I’ll be levelling my Titan up at some point this week neg; so if you want I’ll help you get past 20, after that you can join my hunter or warlock for content if you’re interested in playing Destiny again.
I’m actually kind of tempted to start a new one from scratch and try the other classes. Titan was okay but I played Warlock in beta and I think I might have enjoyed it more. Certainly used the abilities more often.
But at the same time, I started a fresh Dark Souls run and I’m around 40 out of 120+ hours into The Witcher 3 and I was about to hit the endgame in Atelier Ayesha too (saving that one until I move to the US, since I’ll likely be sans PC and consoles / internet for an extended period)
All good neg no pressure =] Just thought I’d let you know I’m doing the grind from scratch on a toon if you’re looking to join some co-op to get you past 20. At level cap Destiny is way too boring as a solo game, you need to join a few friends or you’ll burn out on it within an hour or two.
Yep, that’s basically exactly what happened for me. Hit a wall, and the built-in tools for getting groups together are terrible. Ran exactly one strike my entire play experience to 20. Didn’t want my first time through each to be with randoms while I’m learning the fights, but it’s super hard to get a group together to run strikes in-game. Can’t even set a HEY MY GAME IS OPEN AND I WANT TO RUN THIS SPECIFIC CONTENT marker on your profile for your friends to see.
I gave the story bits a go in The Dark Below and I’m pretty sure it took about an hour? Then it was back to bounties in strikes to get a strike, and I assume more of the same to get at the raid, but by that point my hard-won gear was outclassed by ugly-ass vendor shit which I’d need to grind bounties and resources to level up plus regularly waiting on Xur for shit, and staring down the barrel of that ordeal I decided I really, really, really couldn’t be bothered.
I tried the first story mission. Got ambushed by a guy with a big fuckoff sword on the way to the boss, who proceeded to carve me about 30 new anuses. Beat him on maybe the eighth go. Got to the boss, and was promptly instagibbed. Literally would enter into the battle, start firing, and then would be dead after taking maybe two hits. And that’s just the boss, not his henchmen.
Ragequit. Haven’t logged in since.
I think it was probably designed by, and for, people who had been raiding Vault of Glass every time it reset from the day it came out, who can’t understand people who hadn’t invested in fifty+ real hours of actual raid-repetition. “Like… you’ve got that whole part of the game to do before you do the next bit, dude!”
I’m holding off on judgement.
I know the DLCs name, nothing else.
It is a leak. There may be far more content that has not been shown, possibly justifying the $40. Hell, it mightn’t even be $40.
Everyone was sure HoW was going to fail because it had no raid, but it is the best expansion yet.
I’ll wait for the proper reveal.
Hell, $40 might be the next season pass price (since I’m relatively certain this was when they were going to drop support for old gen, if I’m not mistaken)
E3 will reveal all. Bungie know though that the community has been crying out for content. There’s a strong chance that if they fail to deliver that the consumer base will drop considerably. Activision might not be aware of this though, but if Bungie knows Activision requires X amount of DLC/expansions per year then it’s up to Bungie to provide a decent game in that.
All I know is that at the end of ‘Destiny Year 1’ there’s the amount of content available that I was expecting on launch. It doesn’t feel me full of hope for Year 2 and if it follows suit, thrn at most I’ll be picking up the DLC in a GOTY edition next year or in a PS Store sale if it’s cheap enough.
Destiny got away with a distinct lack of games on the new consoles that it was the first ‘big’ game launched on them (I won’t go on about the downfalls of it being cross gen here). Now that more AAA games are being released, Destiny will find it harder to have such a good time in terms of sales. Unfortunately I don’t think the bean counters at Bungie or Activisiom are aware of the community’s desires. My only hope is that the Transformers studio they branched out to are working on extra DLC and we will get to see the level of content a lot of gamers have been crying out for
Had the most amazing lunch today. A Philly Cheesesteak made with all Tasmanian ingredients. Wasn’t the cheapest but it tasted incredible. So damn good. 10/10, would do again.
*mouth waters*
If you come to Launceston, I’ll shout you one.
Entirety of TAY suddenly wants to visit Tasmania
I am genuinely considering Tassie for my next couple weeks vacation, possibly sometime in the latter half of this year.
If you need a tour guide, I’d be happy to show you around. Just as long as you pay for my accommodation, entry fees, food, beverages and incidentals.
And your assistant.
*cough*
See you tomorrow at lunchtime. *books flights*
I’ll be there somewhere between the 4th and 12th of July…. 😀
If you spend some time in Launceston, I can show you around. There’s plenty of places both adults and kids can enjoy, including plenty of free stuff.
I’m not actually sure if we’ll end up in Launceston for long but I’ll let you know. We’re not really planning in a hardcore way, just going to see what we feel like doing on a particular day. Any food recommendations are extremely welcome, though!
You really weren’t kidding about being here the same time I’m up in Queensland 😛
No, no I wasn’t. It’s pretty funny, though. 😀
Open invitation to tour guide the south of the state!
As above, not sure what we’re doing yet. Got a list of things I want to see again, but not going to stress if we don’t get to them. Would most definitely welcome food “must-eat” places, though!
Popsugar’s six ways to stop your colon eating itself, Summarized:
– No steak.
– No bacon.
– No booze.
– Drink your goddamn milk.
– Eat your goddamn vegetables
– Make sure you eat enough garlic that it leaks out of your pores when you sweat and makes any vampire within fifteen feet immediately self-combust
– Correlation equals causation
I’m prepared to risk it.
I’m philosophically opposed to any regime that in any way impedes my regular consumption of bacon.
That last one gives the game away 🙂
Dr Karl’s advice is the best. Eat food. Mostly Plants.
My Vita games arrived! Time to put them aside until I have time to play them yay!
What did you order?
Touch my katamari, Shinobido 2 and Miku f second
@jocon @liondrive peeps I’ll be on after 8.30 to do today’s dailies if you guys are interested (pvp and pve)? Might have to leave the Queen’s stuff till tomorrow cos I got to start work early tomoz.
Cool, I’ll be on once reset hits.
Up for the weekly strikes tonight?
Ok, when IS the reset? I swear it has been at 3 different times so far.
Sorry, I took an impromptu visit to my besties house tonight 🙂
I should be in tomorrow and throughout the week though!
All good; you only missed out on myself and Jocon getting our asses handed to us repeatedly in PvP thanks to latency and people appearing to either be teleporting or moving incredibly quickly.
Night of the Rabbit is $3.99 on Steam. It’s a pretty great game, you should get on it. You know, if you like adventure games that is.
Anyway, since I finished the latest episodes of Life is Strange and Game of Thrones, I can’t get into any of the other games I was playing before. I was really enjoying slowly making my way through a few games like Wolfenstein the Old Blood, Dishonoured, Metro 2033, and I just started Remember Me, but I’ve completely lost interest in playing. I’m not really bothered, it’s just… weird.
Maybe I’ll replay one of the Telltale games – Walking Dead or Wolf. But I don’t usually replay games like that because I like to stick to my decisions for the characters I play.
So… How’s things?
Night of the Rabbit! Life is Strange! <3 <3 <3 You say all the right things! 😀
Hope you’re well, Smurfy!
I certainly am a charmer 😛
But seriously, Life is Strange is probably my favourite game this year.
I’m also looking forward to Anna’s Quest coming out soon and also hopefully Firewatch will be out this year too.
I’m OK, DC, how’s yourself?
I’m pretty decent, bud. Definitely agree with you there about Life is Strange. And Anna’s Quest. And Firewatch! (Cc. @janexo, another member for our club!) im hoping Quantic Dream announces something new at E3 too!
It’s nice to be feeling (almost) human again. Had a very unfun weekend of suffering a gastro bug, and looking after my little boy who had it too.
Glad you’re feeling better, that sounds like the perfect storm of not a great weekend.
I’m still not able to face a cup of coffee, but I can eat again! \o/
Gastro sucks. I had it last Thursday, only for 24 hours, but it took me the whole weekend to recover.
Oh that’s right. Destiny’s got an insanely boring umpteen million hour deliberately limited grind before you can actually get enough reputation / gear to gear up so you can enjoy the ‘real’ content / extra shit you paid for.
Played a couple of hours and I’m already bored.
Playing solo or with peeps? So much better with peeps.
Surprisingly, that’s how I’m feeling about Splatoon’s multiplayer.
What’s the grind there?
Campers and overpowered opponents.
I’m not seeing the correlation with what Neg said, so I’ll just say git fresh, scrub 😛
I’ve sunk more hours into the game than I choose to think about, but yeah. I only really jump on now when someone is in need of help with something. I’m gonna put it into the ‘short burst’ gamepile from now on as it is still fun to play in 30 minute chunks. Unfortunately the game doesn’t reward you unless you’re piling in the hours, but meh
They’ve made it easier and simpler than ever to get to max light. They hand out 36 and 42 light gear like it’s going out of fashion. They’ve actually removed a chunk of the grind by making the current queen rep bounties weeklies instead of dailies like Eris and Vanguard/Crucible bounties. If you can do a 32 PoE for an armor core, you can buy a piece of 42 light gear from Variks every week.
I had two of my three characters at level 34 within days of HoW release – didn’t even have to grind hard for it.
I’m still at Vanguard level 1 and at 10 per mission and 50 per quest it will take me weeks of boring rep grind to get to 3 and have enough marks to buy any gear. So no, they didn’t make quicker unless you already did that grind.
Don’t do patrols or strikes, do the daily missions (the easy ones) which usually give about 350-500 rep per day. You should have rank 1 in one week from playing about 60-90 minutes Edit : 60-90min per day for a week.
I can’t. They’re too hard for me.
If you want join me and Jocon; we run the dailies every day usually from 8PM NSW time (so after they’ve reset at 7PM). Sometimes we do PvP sometimes PvE and usually only go till about 9.30-10 =]
Don’t play Destiny solo neg, it’s ridiculously boring end-game if you’re on your own. Almost all my game time in Destiny has been with friends from TAY, even the daily missions which you can solo easily I do with jocon cos it’s way too grindy and boring if you aren’t bitching about the game to someone while playing it =P
Can’t really disagree. Longest part of my hunter’s time was between levels 20 and 25, just getting rep and marks. That said, it’s not too bad if you just take it slow – you can hit 29 in a couple of weeks without too much effort. But, if it’s not for you, no worries – no point playing something you don’t enjoy, after all.
If you’re taking issue with the grind, I assume you’re not into PvP? In that case, you can do bounties each day for a few days – pick whichever you feel you can knock over quickly, and don’t worry too much about ignoring any that seem overly tedious (there are some optimal ways to quickly knock most out) – and maybe some strike playlists (and the Daily if you feel you can, I think it starts at 22 sometimes, which you can hit with one piece of vendor gear) to get some marks and rep. Key is to stop playing when you want to stop playing – you can only earn 100 marks a week, so any playtime beyond that won’t get you much progress. Two weeks will see you to 25 with two pieces of gear (possibly at 26 if you find a blue with some light), maybe 29 if you can afford three pieces. At 25+ you can start trying the first raid – @liondrive was putting a group of inexperienced players together for Vault of Glass, and tbh, doing the vault blind was one of the best multiplayer experiences I’ve had.
And while Red’s point of “it’s more fun with friends” is true, and above level 25 you really need a good group to play with, it’s certainly not an excuse. 20-25 is the most tedious part of the game as the options are so limited. Once you hit about 28-32, it opens up quite a bit.
Game is not fun enough to want to spend several hours in it every day just so I can get the gear to actually be able to enjoy myself. It’s not a browser game.
The fact that there’s artificial limits like 100 marks per week is shit as well.
An hour a day is usually plenty to get rep in no time.
The 5k Xp story bounties take a few minutes each if you keep checkpoints at the end of the relevant missions by leaving asap as soon as the boss is down; I keep one at the end of The Archive, Shrine of Oryx, Eye of a Gate lord, etc to be able to nab Sardok/Grayliks/Gate Lord in a couple of minutes each. 20 of those, iirc, will get you to rank 2. Hive majors are quickly done in the cave under the Steppes in Cosmodrome, Cabal majors in the Exclusion Zone on the second difficulty, Fallen Majors in Ishtar Cliffs on Venus, or the end of the Archive on the second difficulty. Strike bounties are usually more time than they’re worth, I think, unless you’re doing the playlists.…wait, you’re level 23, with 56 marks? You should be able to hit 26 by the weekend with just 5k XP bounties, level 22 dailies and maybe a couple of level 22 strikes… three hours across 2-3 days should be plenty.
Another 19 marks and you can get yourself gauntlets from the vanguard to get to 26. Go do the daily whenever it’s at level 22 – that’ll net you 5 marks… If you see a lightswitch modifier, like today’s, either keep everything at range, or bring a friend, else it’ll be far too frustrating. 5 strikes on the level 22 playlist will get you the rest. Hmm… you need 1200 rep or so. So, stretch it over two days – two dailies and a few level 22 strikes, stick to 5k bounties, and you should be able to hit 26 Saturday or Sunday with little but consistent effort, depending on which bounties are available. Then you could join a Vault group.It’s not designed for binging, tho – the limits exist to discourage people from binging and burning out like that – I nearly burnt out a couple of times trying to speed up the process. I guess my point is, if you don’t like the fact that it’ll take consistent playtime (not purely lots of hours, but an hour every so often for a week or two) to get through to the endgame proper, you probably won’t enjoy the endgame, either. I can tell you what you can do to speed things up a bit, but it’s up to you to decide if you want to continue playing.
The problem isn’t that I don’t like having to devote consistent play time, it’s that I can’t actually do that. I need stuff that I can play in long chunks, irregularly. The fact is that some days I could easily have spare time to devote 6+ hours, others I wouldn’t even have 20 minutes. But after about an hour playing Destiny it feels like there’s nothing left for me to do but log off.
I understand their reasoning around the limits, but that sort of thing ends up working against them. Other MMOs tried the same approach too, and they all have the same problem. If your players want to binge for 48 hour marathon sessions and then burn out, then let them. Most people don’t want to do that. Fair enough in having a limit early in the game’s life maybe, but at this point it’s just an impediment.
Okay, fair enough – being a single guy with no social life, I regularly forget people have other commitments. Just means the game doesn’t suit your circumstances, I guess. So, you can either put in an hour here and there when you can until you hit 26, then organise/find a vault group for a time when you’ve got a 6+ hour slot; or stick to a game you’re more comfortable with. There’s nothing wrong with not playing something that doesn’t work for you.
I’m a Bungie fan from way back, and it kills me that the game is so hostile toward me. 🙁
I know the feeling. Halo: CE got me into gaming in a way that the likes of Mario, Pokemon and Street Fighter never did – by weaving a halfway-decent story. When they said Destiny would be multiplayer-focused, I felt betrayed. I couldn’t fathom why anyone would play Halo for the multiplayer – my limited experience with it indicated it was filled with annoying dickheads – why would anyone willingly subject themselves to that? And after Halo’s mission structure, I kept expecting Destiny to be filled with Dead Space 3 -esque orange doors marked “Co-op.”
But, I played the alpha back in May last year, and had a blast – the matchmaking for strikes gave me hope that I could still enjoy it solo. Once it came out, I enjoyed the road to level 20, and hit a wall. I followed advice on how to get past 20, and nearly burnt out on the strike playlists. I had to change the way I played – no more weekend warrioring. And, truth be told, had it not been for people I met through the Kotaku AU clan, I’d have stopped playing after that first week. Luckily, I found a raid group via Kotaku, and had a blast going through the Vault blind with them – doing the Vault with them became my routine for Tuesday and Wednesday nights. Been drifting between a couple of groups since then, but I’m very happy the new HoW content only warrants 3 people, given how hard it was to coalesce six conflicting schedules.
http://www.siliconera.com/2015/06/09/shin-megami-tensei-x-fire-emblem-being-directed-by-radiant-historia-director/
Suddenly I am way more interested in SMT x Fire Emblem. Radiant Historia’s a fantastic game.
Dammit, there’s a bajillion different kinds of cables and adapters around here, but not a single one of them (or combination thereof) gives me a female 3.5mm plug at each end. Was hoping to be able to MacGyver up a 4-pole extension cable, but that’s the one piece missing from the puzzle.
You need a pencil, a paperclip and some string to MacGyver that shit up
Woke up to someone having stolen the two back wheels from my car. I used up all my good luck yesterday it seems :'(
Man people fucking suck!
What’s even the point of doing that except for inconveniencing the victim… Sorry man must be a really shit thing to get up to in the morning :-/
Hope you get it sorted out quickly
Thanks mate, I’m insured so there should just be an excess to pay. I called at 5am and the police still haven’t come out yet, so hopefully they come soon to file the report.
That’s really crappy, wish I could help in any way…
I’ve had my tires slashed before but never stolen… Now I’m considering getting proper lock nuts just so it doesn’t happen
Lock them nuts, if I had my time again I would.
This shit is why I hate the very concept of an excess.
That’s, I don’t know. Some people just stoop really low. I hope your day gets a lot better
Cheers man, it’s a bit sucky but it could’ve been worse. The back wheels were due for a change as of last week, so you lose thieves! o/
Dude, that’s awful.
It’s particularly sucky, I live in what I would call s nice suburb but it’s the third time something like this has happened in my street (three times to two different cars of mine). Time to sell my ute and get a hatchback I think.
WHAT? Who even does that? Sorry to hear this, friend.
Thanks for your support, guy. My car has been targeted before, I have a feeling some young guys who live in the block of flats across from me have something to do with it. I’ve seen them pay attention to the insides of cars as they walk past which is strange..
That’s crazy, I can’t believe shit like that happens. Do you have any access to secure parking? Might be worth thinking about =\
Apparently these tyres are very hard to get according to my Dad, but I ended up finding a couple for $280 which was a relief! We’ve locked all our cars up in the front gate so hopefully that’s a deterrent :S
I live in the suburbs with no garage lol
Fucking scumbags man.
I would be getting a good set of lock nuts, but unfortunately if you make things harder to steal, some thieves will just cause damage instead, so you’re kind of between a rock and a hard place.
Another option is to maybe get a less “desirable” car, put up cameras, and/or think about moving.
Hope your day/week only gets better from here.
Edit: Also, if they’re stock wheels is it really worth making a claim and paying the excess? Would probably be cheaper just to buy two more wheels.
I like your idea with another car, I’m the owner of a ute so they are the targets of break ins for tools, stolen tyres, etc. I want a hatchback for a number of reasons so this could be my push to get one. I just got the stock wheels, only $280 thankfully!
Do so love the train in the morning where everyone crams into the doorway rather than move down the aisles. I also love the lack of respect of personal space and the backpack currently trying to invade my intestinal area on a periodic basis.
Breathe, relax and 5 more days until Bethesda E3 conference
People trying to get on public transport before letting people off is the dumbest shit.
Witcher 3 fanboying!
Late(‘ish? Mid-late?)-game stuff:
Spoiler occurs after the quest to find Ciri.Met Ciri in Novigrad, her panicking about being called in to speak to the sorceresses of the Lodge. “They have plans! They’re going to try to involve me in them!” Aside from finding Ciri for the first time, and the look on her face when Geralt turned down payment from the Emperor, this is probably one of my favourite moments in the game so far. I actually laughed, and was like, “Princess, I LOVE that your default reaction is to distrust sorceresses and that instinct should serve you well, but you’ve gotta go in there and woman up.” I expect she’ll probably handle whatever the hell that was better than poor, hapless Geralt, who seems to get played no matter how distrustful he is. The whole paternal, ‘give her some advice and send her into the world’ moment played out wonderfully. Really loved that whole ‘concerned parent’ thing with Yen. YES, I AM FEELING PROUD OF AN IMAGINARY VIDEO GAME DAUGHTER. Shut up. Ciri and Geralt interactions are the best; the quest to help her pay folk back in Novigrad was fantastic.Moar fanboy squee’ing and such.
Yeah, I wasn’t up to this part 🙁 haha
Hm. Darn! I might have to split up the first spoiler part a bit more clearly…
Yeah I read like the first sentence and closed the spoiler =P Dammit how is everyone going further in the game than me! I think it’s cos I spent a day checking out all the “?” in Skellige’s ocean… Only got a bunch of rubbish to show for it =@
Haha I actually forgot what you wrote now so its all good! o/
I figured I was near late game in getting to Skellige and meeting up with Yen. I’ve romanced every Mage I could do far, going back to Kaer Morhen could be bad for Geralt… Or the best thing ever.Uhm.
Potential vague spoliers that you possibly want to have anyway… re: romance outcomes.
If you romance both Triss AND Yennefer… bad things happen.You maaaaaay possibly want to load a save.
But but but…
My Geralt cracks onto Yen as often as he can, I don’t get the choice of what to say half the time ..As long as you didn’t say
, “I love you,” to both of them and agree to be together, then you should be fine?Don’t worry. I find it near-impossible rejecting beautiful women, too.
I’m gonna have to do another play through! :O
I was just going to post what transient said; pick one or lose them all. Surprisingly CDPR have kept a degree of realism with Geralt’s romancing ways this time around xD
Crap.
I’ve sent Keira and Triss back together… I knew I should have finished her when I had the chance!!The Ciri/Geralt relationship is really beautiful and unique.@rize @Cakesmith @powalen @blaghman @f4ction @rocketman @sernobulus
I’d just like to take a moment to give my sincerest thanks to you guys for giving me a chance to get out of my hidey hole and interact with people even if it’s just through a game… Working together with you have done a good job of relieving some of my low mood I’ve suffered a lot from due to the depression…
Even yesterday after a pretty crappy day it managed to take my mind off things and relieve a lot of stress…
So yeah, thank you for that…
…
Inb4 GAAAAAAY
Hah! GAAAAAAA-
Dammit!
There’s nothing better at putting a smile on a face than watching your best dinosaur friend get paralysed by a scorpion and slowly eaten.
Wait…
Dinosaurs can be re-tamed but friendships are forever… Well except if your friendship was to the recently lost Dino… Then it’s gone… Yeah
HELEEEEEEEN!
Wait Helen died? :'(
I look forward to logging in tonight and
finding my new raptor deadplaying with you guys again.Chris Pratt has better be there tonight! He’s awesome… Also really enjoyed our exploration/hunting trip last night, we should definitely do that again
Also I wish I could equip my early backers hat to the raptor… I want my raptor to wear a hat
I have a Raptor that wears a hat
Glorious!
Do I need to get on this boat? is it good?
It’s a lot of fun, but it is early access so there are some strange (and wonderful) bugs…like spawning in naked and unconscious with @blaghman staring at you…
Or a raptor spawning in your house while you’re offline and then killing you while you’re in game but still loading so you can’t do anything about it.
Or the dino physics making dead dinos return to their planet because they’re needed when you kill them.
Or the fact that you don’t take fall damage while riding a dino (this is going to bite us in the ass one day).
hmm, might wait til the bugs are ironed out
I still need to upload the screenshots of the Tale of the Flying Pigophant… Magnificent creature! @rize @powalen
BOLBGORN
I thought I had Gascoigne on a lock. Then he went all Mr Hyde on me.
I think I need to introduce him to my good friend Molotov.
He’s also causing me to drink so much gatorade.
Some people swear by using the music box, but it makes him transform earlier and there’s so much animation to using the bloody thing that I found myself getting murdered more when trying to use it than was worth in that incredibly brief window of stun it gives. Dodging and ripostes was how I managed that fight. Lots and lots of dodging – that gun of his is bullshit.
I’ve just been putting tombstones between me and him and then using the reach of the saw cleaver.
Staggered him a few times, but I haven’t quite been able to line up a visceral attack
Once he’s big, do the same thing with trees.
It’s a lot harder than hiding behind the gravestones but he can break them now.
I found it gave me the valuable time I needed to chug down a Gatorade because otherwise he knocked me to the floor and mauled me.
I’m gonna be lost in boss battles without stuff to cower behind
Yeah, I’ll figure him out. Helps that I found elevator shortcut to him.
How much further in than me are you? And what level are you at? I’m around lvl 20
I’ll check tonight & get back to you.
I was slowly chugging along with Remote Play while big tv was unavailable for Dark Soulsing. Now that that’s done I’m big TVing BB.
It took me 5 hours of death then grinding to beat that first boss. I didn’t purposefully grind again before Gascoigne, but found a new sewer area I’d missed & linked some areas with shortcuts before beating him, so I naturally levelled a tad more.
I think I managed to level my weapon twice before beating him.
I’ve levelled my weapon once, but I’m not so concerned with that- damage output is fine atm. I think I just need to knuckle under and do it.
I did only play about an hour last night anyway.
I thought weapon levelling was really important?
I’ve also only raised my skill (using chain whip) so that my dps raises. Health seems pointless since the Gatorade doesn’t fill you 100%.
I put a little into the green bar (this stats name eludes me atm!)so I could at least bang out a 3 hit combo & dodge before running out.
@jimu I need more of the shards to level it again- I’ve levelled the saw cleaver once and the blunderbuss once.
Oh right, yeah. I can’t seem to time my shits well enough so have been relying and dodge, so didn’t touch the gun.
Really need to learn how to shoot properly, entire skill I’m wasting.
@jimu I dunno what combo you’re using or the specific nuances of the guns – ask @freezespreston or @shane – but this video helped me with the visceral attacks: http://www.polygon.com/2015/4/3/8342863/how-bloodborne-visceral-attacks-work
I think I just need practice, timing & precision just doesn’t come easy for me.
(cc. @jimu)
I hit the end of the game, and I could only reliably parry 3 attacks. Thankfully, one of those was on the second last boss, because otherwise it would have taken me three times as long.
I thought the idea was to use the music box once he’d transformed – hide behind a tree and use it, then backstab him while he’s stunned. But I’ve only ever seen that done, never done it myself. I just dodged and hit him with molotovs until he was dead.
Yeeees. “Drinking” “Gatorade”….
It’s not a good sign when you start trying to hide it.
Health potions in Souls were always Gatorade.
IDGAF if it’s not actually a drinking action in Blubcorn, it’s Gatorade.
*stages intervention*
Red, we’re all here because we love you very much.
Then why’s @dc here? He doesn’t love me…
I kid, I kidHe heard about the supplied snacks and Pepsi and demanded he attend.
Wait… I’m to share a room with pepsi-drinkers?
Monsters, all.
That’s almost as bad as *gasp* console users!
😛DARK SOULS 3 DAILY UPDATE (@powalen)
http://au.ign.com/articles/2015/06/09/dark-souls-3-art-confirms-early-2016-release
IGN have ‘uncovered’ a new image appearing to confirm an early 2016 release date. Make of it what you will.
DOG SWELLS TREE
DORK SMELLS FREED
NUMENERA: TALES OF THE NINTH WORLD
There’ll be no accusations, just friendly crustaceans! Under the Sea!
TONIGHT 7:30 SA TIME
cc @blaghman @tech_knight @popdart5
Red, that’s your solution to everything: to move under the sea! It’s not gonna happen!
Well, uh, yeah…
I’ll be there.
So, anyone got anything they’re eyeing off for the Steam Summer Sale?
When’s that start? I bought a bunch of EUIV dlc this morning, but I don’t think it’ll do better than 75% off in the sale so I’m happy.
The 11th, apparently.
75% off DLC?! Damn I need to get home!!!
Dude, Steam App. Bought it lying in bed this morning.
Oh Jesus, there really is no escape.
Nothing in particular… but I’m sure I’ll end up buying something(s).
Surely we’re at a point now where Steam knows enough about us, including our credit card details, that it can just pre-load our shopping cart and prompt us to click ‘Buy’ once and be done with it?
I have some stuff wishlisted. GalCiv III and Blackwell Epiphany are topping my list at the moment.
Not really tbh
Got some stuff wish-listed but honestly between Ark, Witcher 2/3, Elite, Project Cars, GTA V and other stuff I’ve currently forgotten about I should be set for a while and feel pretty content 😛
Oh and something something got no money until the end of the month something, but mainly the first thing
Valkyria Chronicles and possibly a DLC or 2 for Train Simulator. Other than that, I’ll be playing Arkham Knight anyway so I won’t have the time to think of other games to buy 😀
Well I really enjoy the steam sale meta which is odd I know but just something that I have always done. So I’ll be happy going along with that. As long as I get my summer sale mysterious badge I’ll be happy.
As for things I have my eye on I’ve got a top 15 on my wishlist that I’ll seriously be consdiering. Hoping to get Invisible Inc, life is strange and hand of fate. Some other things like Dex, sunless sea, freedom fall and similar.
I’m close to finishing Ass creed:Rev so might get another AC game, probably III but tempted to jump straight to black flag.
Edit: Probably a few pinball tables as well
What’s doin, all?
Wishing I was at home playing Witcher instead of at work doing two peoples’ jobs.
Yeah, I wanna play Bloodborne, DS2 & Demons…
Or y’know, just one of em.
Stoopid wurk
Working too hard… but obviously not hard enough that I can’t TAY too…
Just looking at my mountain of work and makes me want to procrastinate even more…
My work is coming in dribs & drabs, lunch could not come sooner!
Hoping Payday 2 pops street date. I miss being on that train.
I ended up buying Freedom Wars & it’s fun but makes me wish God Eater 2 got localised.
I played 1 for a while, seemed more solid overall.
Yeah, I dug Freedom Wars, but it feels a little shallow. Gets a little repetitive. Loved the art style and the grappling system, but man – I just need God Eater 2 in my life. God Eater Burst is still brilliant.
Yep, exactly this. Was making progress & just stopped at L6 (or whatever they call it).
Didn’t seem to be adding a challenge, just more enemies sponging up more damage.
I wanna get back to it, but Duke Nukem 3D has my attention again.
Getting further in locking down what I want to do with this Wrestling RPG. No idea if I’m doing it right or not.
Related: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkSRUf02gu8
If you want to bounce some ideas, flick us an email.
E3.
The show to announce everything that’s already been announced.
I’m on the fence with e3.
Yes, I’m keen for some announcements but people seem to be excited for the event itself.
Its like developer x has a new record out & everyone can’t wait to see a live performance.
Aaannnnddd one of my team just went home sick… Only had 3 of us today.
My productivity is going to be amazing… or absolutely shit.
Steam sale (allegedly) starting tomorrow, Lego Jurassic World next week, and Yoshi’s Woolly World and Batman: Arkham Knight the week after.
Man, I’m gonna be so broke!
That’s why pre-paid cards are the way to go.
I swear you have bought every game that has been on sale for the last 2 weeks.
That is why you are broke :p
Hahaha. Nah, only ones I really wanted or if they were under a buck.
Not idea if it’s still available, but I preordered PC Batman from OGS for like $28. Still not sure how/why it was so cheap.
EDIT: It’s gone up in price…now $30 😛
http://www.ozgameshop.com/pc-games/batman-arkham-knight-cd-key-download-for-steam-with-harley-quinn-pre-order-dlc?auto
That’s a pretty sweet deal, but my laptop won’t run it, and I’m about 3-6 months out from building a gaming rig.
Doesn’t is start at 3am Friday morning?
I’d say so. Thursday for the ‘mericans.
Hah.
I’ve spent less than $60 on steam this year. Unless there’s something super great, I doubt I’ll spend more than like $20 this sale.
I tip my hat to you sir. If only I had your willpower.
Must buy all teh gamez.
In a similar position, but sadly only because of Steam sales over the past couple of years meaning I already have pretty much everything I want for the most part.
Actually, I lie, I bought Cities: Skylines off Greenman, which puts me at about $80
I’ve already got a metric buttload of games that I don’t play, enough to probably last me multiple lifetimes, yet I can’t stop myself buying more.
If it’s cheap, I’ll buy it.
I was doing that until I realised that everything on steam will be on sale again so if you don’t buy it right away it doesn’t matter. I can pick it up later when I actually will play it, chances are it might have had a price drop by then and I’ll get it cheaper anyway
Yep. Every good on Steam is effectively infinite and ever reducing in price. Unless you want it right now, don’t do it.
I’ve only spent about $25 so far this year as I have been trying to cut back on my purchases
So I’ll probably spend $50 or so on the sale I would guess. Although It will likely be double that if past experience is anything to go by
I may have went a little crazy and overspent a tad on last years sale, so if I can spend a quarter of that I’ll be happy.
So trying to keep it under a grand this time 😉
Lol, yeah pretty much.
Knowing me, I’ll end up spending money on mum and then debate whether I should buy a $5 for myself
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2015-06-09-chris-avellone-leaves-obsidian-entertainment
Welp, I guess that’s it for Obsidian then. Wonder where he’ll end up next. Maybe Bioware will hire him so that they can actually have a decent writer on staff.
Ironically as I was in the middle of typing this I got an email from reception to go pick up a package, which turned out to be my physical copy of Pillars of Eternity from the Kickstarter campaign.
He’ll get snapped up really quickly.
I don’t think that’s “it” for Obsidian, but they’re big shoes to fill.
I guess that Josh Sawyer is still there, at least.
Yeah, he’s pretty sharp.
The way I was reading it he doesn’t need to be snapped up as he’s going to another opportunity that he can’t yet speak about. I may be looking at it from the wrong angle, of course.
Lego Jurassic World can be bought on the humble store and greenmangaming, both deliver the game as a steam key, yet I can’t find the game for purchase on steam. Interesting.
That’s not unusual though. Keys can be made available for games before they’re “officially” on sale through the Steam store, e.g. by the developer for pre-release purposes. Maybe they’re just choosing to wait on selling it via the Steam store until the movie comes out / the summer sale / the moon is in the 7th house and Jupiter aligns with Mars.
Productive night last night. 3 nightfalls done in an hour (solar+void burn Taniks is soooo quick with the right loadout – ice breakers and gjallys rejoice), during which I scored [another] gjallarhorn (much to my friend’s dismay), followed by the new 34 Prison, which was refreshingly simple after Kaliks’ frustrating “screw you, I’m at full health again :P” mechanic last week. Definitely doable with 3x33s with solar shotguns and good rocket launchers, I think.
A question for PC gamers:
Does anyone know if buying games off distributors such as g2play hurts the dev at all?
Cause I’d like to pick up the Witcher 3 for cheaper than the GOG store but at the same time CD Project are such champs I don’t want to rip them off.
Well, for Gog and the Witcher it’s a special case, as CD Projekt own Gog. 100% of your cash through Gog will go back through them, so if you really want them to get as much as possible, buy through Gog.
As I understand it, the key sellers (your greenmans, your OGS etc) buy keys direct from the publisher and put a lower mark-up on them, so the money going back is about the same.
Some of the key resellers are legit, like GMG, but a lot of them are really shady and I wouldn’t buy from them because they’re eg buying cheapo Russian keys, or buying cheap physical copies of the games, selling the activation keys, then selling off the games themselves so people can claim that the key was invalid from Valve and get a second key issued at publisher / developer expense and stuff.
Valve take a dim view of people activating a ton of Russian keys too. It’s resulted in account locks and stuff. So keep that in mind. Don’t know if g2play is one of the good guys or not.
G2Play seem semi legit. They have some Russian keys and steam gift stuff but mostly normal keys.
Bought from them a bunch and never had any issues.
Is there an awesome story about Russian keys?
Not really.
Russian keys tend to be significantly cheaper than keys sold in other regions. It turns out providing cheap games is about the only effective means of tackling piracy. Some people realised they could make a quick buck by buying cheap Russian keys and selling them on to people outside of the CIS region.
To get around this some games that are bought with Russian keys can only be played on Russian IPs. Other people got account locked because the keys they used were bought with stolen credit cards.
Generally speaking though, when you buy CD keys from places like G2Play, you are giving the publishers less money but probably still some money.
Yep, that was boring
Told you.
Totes
I’ve done some more work on the bookmarks.
http://imgur.com/a/MxBWL
Can I buy the Katamari ones yet?
When I get them printed, I’ll let you know
Na, nanana na na, na-na, Katamari Damacy!
@blaghman @redartiface
I really enjoy Bloodborne’s world, so I would love to get decent enough to have a good explore, maybe even try some of those optional dungeons.
I’m hoping I get a similar reaction I to what I did with DS & familiarity will boost my confidence & skill.
I enjoy the feeling of dread the unknown provides but it’d be great to come back with a new perspective & enjoy it on gameplay alone.
Like I do with Resident Evil 2, that games a cakewalk now, I only die from overconfidence, but I love the world & enjoy revisiting from time to time.
I just like the feeling of running around a corner and NOPENOPENOPENOPE-ing out of there until I can face them on my terms.
Yeah, that’s the dread. Great on a first run, almost non relivable is subsequent runs.
A big draw for me.
But a sign of a really good game is when there’s an element like that removed by a replay but it’s solid enough in other areas to keep you interested.
That’s what I’d like to get out of it, if I can.
And I wrote Red Arty Face again, didn’t I ?
And the feeling of exploring WAY past where you’re familiar with, and just… keep on going. “OK, so far, so good… I’m a long way from ‘home’, a shit-tonne of souls under my belt, low on health and supplies, no guarantee if I die to something now I’ll ever be able to find my way back, probably about due to run into a boss. Bring it on.“
Howdy folks,
I’ve had to move the server that TeamSpeak is run on and as a result the IP has changed. It should hopefully be more stable now though…hopefully.
I’m at work at the moment, but I’ve already given @blaghman access and the details, so he can hand them out if you yell at him on Steam or Twitter or drive to his house and do it that way. You can also yell at me and I’ll do my best to get the details to you ASAP.
It will be easier once a few more people are on!
YELLING!
This means I want deets..
Send an email to a_sharples at the hot men dot com
LOUD NOISES!
I DON’T KNOW WHAT WE’RE YELLING ABOUT!
Heading off in roughly an hour to catch an “advance screening” of Jurassic World before work.
So hype!
Take me with yoooooooouuuuuuuu
I would if I could my friend. Alas, you wouldn’t get here in time.
Just stall them, I’ll be there in *looks at wrist watch* 2016!
Just jump in your DeLorean man…… You do have a DeLorean, don’t you?
Ye- yeah… Pffft what kinda lamo person doesn’t? I mean what do you think I am? Lame? O?
I’ve… Just… Misplaced it, that’s all
I’m sad panda because I couldn’t find a cinema near me doing a midnight screening tonight.
My wife and daughter are away Thursday and Friday night, which means I could easily go watch Jurassic World. But then I wouldn’t be playing ARK…
Laptop, WiFi hotspot, winning!
If I had a laptop that could run it I’d be playing it all next week. I’m in Mildura for 4 days…
Have they even invented running water yet?
Of course they have. What do you think makes the water wheels turn.
Don’t need it, they have the river.
They’d have to, otherwise how would they grow all that Marijuana.
Mildura is (apparently) a nice enough place to visit, especially considering the work I’m doing is in Buronga and…well, if you look at it on a map you’d realise why Mildura is a good alternative.
MQFT: A, L, S or F?
EDIT: Mystery Pageget!!!!!
F for Funkin’
TRAB PU KCIP!
Seriously though, I pick L.Pick a bar? What the hell does that mean?
S
for supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
Even though the sound of it is something quite atrocious
Sing us a song Shari Bobbins.
If I proved anything at Tay Karaoke last year, it’s that you don’t want that.
I thought you made a good Kylie.
Vocally, sure, but I should never have tried the gold hot pants.
L
New page PSA repost!
Howdy folks,
I’ve had to move the server that TeamSpeak is run on and as a result the IP has changed. It should hopefully be more stable now though…hopefully.
I’m at work at the moment, but I’ve already given @blaghman access and the details, so he can hand them out if you yell at him on Steam or Twitter or drive to his house and do it that way. You can also yell at me and I’ll do my best to get the details to you ASAP.
It will be easier once a few more people are on!
I’m bored and feeling too flu-ey to do anything productive.
So why do/don’t you play board games?
Me? It’s because I just don’t get the chance these days. Getting a group of friends together is a lot harder when you can’t pester a dozen people into coming around every weekend and Freya’s work schedule doesn’t help at all.
What you expected me to say why I play them? That’s too obvious. It’s because they’re rad.
The only regular tabletop game I play is D&D, which I DM. I play it because it means that I regularly see friends outside of work instead of just playing games with them online.
Also a great excuse for me to have a boys night and get really drunk! Plus I get to be creative and put in lots of puns/bad jokes and see everyone cringe which is really good.
I play board games because
I browbeat and pester people into playing them with methey’re rad.I play board games because video games don’t have local co-op anymore and board games can be pretty inventive.
I don’t play board games because my crippling anxieties come to the forefront every time I fail to understand how to do anything (which is most board games, or, super specially, the mega game, wherein I flailed about in a robe for eight hours doing nothing).
If it’s any consolation, I’m always judging everyone harshly. Failing to comprehend isn’t going to earn you any extra demerits :p
Because it’s so much fun doing something illogical and watching you blow up over it 😛
Jerk.
I play board games because I get invited to and don’t know how to say no. Well, the ones that keep happening at my former place of employment anyway 😛
I don’t play board games because of the same reason I don’t do most things – laziness. Also the board games we have here at home aren’t all that great.
Sounds like an excuse to buy some board games.
I play board games because my friends won’t take no for an answer.
I don’t play board games because they’re terrible. 😛 (Serious answer, for me socializing uses all my mental energy. I can’t socialize and play board games at the same time. I don’t grasp the rules. I can’t concentrate. I don’t think it’s cause I’m dumb. That might be it, but I genuinely think that I’m not in a state to just relax and play a game. My mind is too busy overcoming this terrifying obstacle of talking to people and trying not to be an idiot. :P) Also I’m just not a fan of competitive games. WHY CAN’T WE ALL BE FRIENDS. 😛
Play co-op games! Like Pandemic!
I’m not a huge fan of adversarial board-games either. I just want to cooperate with my friends, not fight them.
I play Monopoly because I only play the best board games.
Monopoly is great if you play it correctly!
Is that where you don’t play it at all?
…
With improvised weapons instead of pieces?
Board games are rad, they let me socialise a bit more and it is easier to lock time away to do it if I need to travel or people are coming over. I find it harder to lock in time to play online games if I am just at home.
I don’t play board games because it is hard to find really good 2 player games and our place is really small to have people over
Have you tried Sherlock Holmes: Consulting Detective? It’s pretty amazing with two players. Actually, it’s just pretty amazing.
No, but that looks amazing and something that would work really well for us.
We already play the Sherlock Holmes PC games together and this looks much better than that
There was a recent print run of it, so if you’re going to buy it you should do it now. It’s really good.
Ozgameshop has one left in stock.
Because we’ve been in the phase of our lives where evenings (that used to be the domain of dinners and boardgames) have been taken up with bathtime and bedtime for small children. Under 5s do not have much tolerance for board games. If it’s not over quickly, the board tends to get knocked over. We once made it through 80% of a game of ticket to ride when a 2 year old happened to it.
Having said that, mr 4 is discovering cardgames like Pokemon, and wlill be able to read soon, so hopefully some family boardgame time can start happening again.
Hooray for soon!
In the meantime, there are digital versions of a lot of games on tablets that you could probably get away with. It’s not the same but it’s something you can do while sitting on the couch without worrying about Batkid knocking everything over.
On his own, Batkid isn’t too bad. It’s more the situation when we’re playing a 4-6 player game with friends and there are multiple kids around.
In that case, maybe some sort of makeshift cage masquerading as a ballpit?
See @mad_danny, you aren’t the only one who thinks about cage matches with little children
I didn’t say anything about a cage match but if one was to organically happen because a group of small children were locked in a cage… well, is it that wrong to take bets?
I don’t play as often as I like, and don’t get to play some of the games I’d like to play because my usual group would find them grossly inappropriate 🙁
But I mainly play them for the social aspect.
I don’t because all my geek friends are shit and were never particularly interested in board games or table top RPGs. I still buy board games on occasion, then never actually play them. Same with RPG rulebooks and sourcebooks. I should sell my friends and buy new ones.
Well, MQFT has been decided. I will be playing Lego Marvel Superheroes. The other options were Alien Isolation, Final Fantasy Type-0 and Sleeping Dogs.
If you put it that way, Sleeping Dogs!
Secondeded.
Thirdededed.
Fourthed. (Alien Isolation should be saved for night for good reason.)
I WIN!
Tiredness has turned me into Snarky McSnarkeson. I’m filled with sarcasm today. I may have also called my boss lazy to their face.
On the plus side unemployment means so much more time for RPGs!
Can you be sarcastic in a hashtag? If so: #smartcareermoves
😛
Oh good, more sarcasm. That’s EXACTLY what we need here.
I posted this on twitter earlier, but my sharp-eyed 4 year old saw something interesting at the shops today: https://instagram.com/p/3u-ISagSSR/
hahahaha, I think shiggy said it best
I have a ton of games (and some hardware) to get rid of before I move to the Land of the Free. See things you’d like, let me know. Some of them I know are pretty rare. Many are worthless though. Those marked with a * are ones that you’d have to give me an extremely good offer to make me part with as I’ll probably keep them as they have sentimental value or something. Those marked with # are ones that my sister currently has custody of and first right or refusal over as a result.
Region is noted. DS, PSP, PS3 do not have region locks so it doesn’t matter much. 360, assume it works on a PAL system unless noted specifically (JP releases are all region-locked to Japan, most US copies I have are unregioned). Original Xbox, Gamecube and Dreamcast are all PAL games. Wii and PS2 are mixed as I had a modded PS2 and the Homebrew Channel allows region breaking for Wii.
Dreamcast (All PAL)
– Grandia II *– Shenmue *
– Skies of Arcadia *
– Sonic Adventure *
– Sonic Adventure 2
Xbox (All PAL)
– Buffy The Vampire Slayer– Dead or Alive 3
– Halo
– Halo 2 (Steelbook)
– Jade Empire Limited Edition
– Jet Set Radio Future *
– Mechassault
– Ninja Gaiden
– Panzer Dragoon Orta *
– Project Zero II: Crimson Butterfly Director’s Cut
– Shenmue 2 *
– Soulcalibur II
– Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
– Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II
– Sudeki
Xbox 360
(Also up for grabs: Kinect, 20gb AU system, 60gb JP system w/Infinite Undiscovery faceplate, Rock Band/Guitar Hero instruments: multiple guitars, drums (Beatles so fixed kick pedal), keyboard, ‘pro’ guitar)– Ace Combat 6 (PAL) *
– Ace Combat: Assault Horizon (PAL)
– Alan Wake (PAL)
– Arcana Heart 3 LE (PAL)
– Assassin’s Creed (PAL)
– Assassin’s Creed II (PAL)
– Assassin’s Creed II Brotherhood (PAL)
– Assassin’s Creed II Revelations (PAL)
– Batman: Arkham Asylum (PAL)
– Batman: Arkham City (PAL)
– Bayonetta (PAL)
– Bioshock (PAL, steelbook)
– Bioshock 2 (PAL)
– Blazblue CE (PAL)
– Blazblue Continuum Shift CE (PAL)
– Blue Dragon (PAL)
– Brutal Legend (PAL)
– Bulletstorm (PAL)
– Call of Duty: Black Ops (US, not regioned)
– Call of Duty: Modern Warfare (PAL)
– Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (US, not regioned)
– Call of Duty: World at War (PAL)
– Castlevania: Lords of Shadow (US, not regioned)
– Child of Eden (US, not regioned)
– Crackdown (PAL)
– Dance Central (PAL)
– Dante’s Inferno (PAL)
– Darksiders (JP, Asia English)
– Dead Rising (PAL)
– Dead Space (PAL)
– Dead or Alive 4 (PAL)
– Dead or Alive Xtreme 2 (PAL)
– Devil May Cry 4 (PAL)
– Dream Club (JP)
– Dream Club Zero (JP)
– Dynasty Warriors Gundam (PAL)
– Dynasty Warriors Gundam 2 (PAL)
– Dynasty Warriors Gundam 3 (US) *
– Earth Defense Force 2017 (US, not regioned) *
– Enchanted Arms (PAL)
– Enslaved: Odyssey to the West (US, not regioned)
– Eternal Sonata (PAL) *
– Fallout: New Vegas (Asia English, not sure if regioned)
– Far Cry 2 (PAL)
– Gal*gun (JP)
– Gears of War (PAL)
– Gears of War 2 (PAL)
– Gears of War 3 (PAL)
– Guitar Hero III (PAL)
– Guitar Hero Metallica (PAL)
– Halo 3 (PAL)
– Halo 4 (PAL)
– Halo Annversary (PAL)
– Halo ODST (PAL)
– Halo Reach (PAL)
– Infinite Undiscovery (PAL)
– Kameo (PAL)
– Kinect Adventures (PAL)
– Kinect Joy Ride (PAL)
– Kinect Sports (PAL)
– Kinectimals (PAL)
– Lego Rock Band (PAL)
– Lost Odyssey (PAL)
– Magna Carta (Asia English, not sure if regioned)
– Mass Effect 2 (PAL)
– Mass Effect 3 CE (PAL)
– Mass Effect Collector’s Edition Tin (PAL) (UK-only import)
– Naruto: Rise of a Ninja (US, not regioned)
– Nier (JP, Asia English)
– Onechanbara: Bikini Samurai Squad (PAL)
– Overlord (PAL)
– Persona 4 Arena (PAL)
– Prince of Persia (PAL) (Prince of Persia 2008)
– Project Gotham Racing (PAL)
– Project Sylpheed (PAL)
– Red Dead Redemption (PAL)
– Rock Band (PAL)
– Rock Band 3 (PAL)
– Shadows of the Damned (US, not regioned)
– Soulcalibur IV (PAL)
– Star Ocean: The Last Hope (JP – Asia English)
– Star Wars: The Force Unleashed (PAL)
– Stranglehold CE (Steelbook) (PAL)
– Tales of Vesperia (JP – Asia English)
– Tales of Vesperia (PAL) *
– Tekken 6 (JP – Asia English)
– The Beatles Rock Band (PAL)
– The Darkness (PAL)
– The Idolm@ster (JP, Platinum)
– The Idolm@ster 2 (JP)
– The Idolm@ster: Live 4 You + Anime OVA CE (JP)
– Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Vegas (PAL)
– Too Human (PAL)
– Transformers: War for Cybertron (PAL)
– Vanquish (Asia, not regioned?)
– Wartech: Senko no Ronde (US, not regioned)
PS1
– Dancing Stage Megamix (why do I own this?)– Final Fantasy VII *
– Final Fantasy VIII *
PS2
– .hack//INFECTION (PAL)– .hack//MUTATION (PAL)
– .hack//OUTBREAK (PAL)
– .hack//QUARANTINE (PAL)
– Ace Combat 5: The Unsung War (US, Greatest Hits)
– Ar Tonelico II LE (US) *
– Ar Tonelico LE (US) *
– Arcana Heart (US)
– Atelier Iris II: The Azoth of Destiny (PAL)
– Atelier Iris III: Grand Phantasm (US)
– Atelier Iris: Eternal Mana (PAL)
– Disgaea 2 (US)
– Disgaea: Hour of Darkness (PAL)
– Dragon Quest; Journey of the Cursed King (PAL)
– Drakengard (PAL)
– Eyetoy: Play (PAL)
– Final Fantasy X (PAL, Platinum)
– Final Fantasy XII (US)
– God of War (PAL, Platinum)
– God of War II (PAL)
– Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (PAL, Platinum)
– GrimGrimoire (US) *
– Guilty Gear X2 #Reload (PAL)
– Jak & Daxter: The Precursor Legacy (PAL, Platinum)
– Jak 3 (PAL)
– Jak II: Renegade (PAL)
– Kingdom Hearts (PAL, Platinum)
– La Pucelle: Tactics (PAL) *
– Lego Star Wars (PAL, Platinum)
– Lego Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy (PAL)
– Makai Kingdom (PAL)
– Mana Khemia II LE (US)
– Mana Khemia LE (US)
– Melty Blood Act Cadzena (JP)
– Metal Gear Solid Collection (MGS1 PS1, MGS2 Substance, MGS3 Subsistence) (US)
– Metal Slug 5 (PAL)
– Odin Sphere (PAL) *
– Okami (US) *
– Persona 3 (US)
– Persona 3 FES (US)
– Persona 4 (US)
– Prince of Persia: Sands of Time (PAL)
– Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones (PAL, Platinum)
– Psychonauts (PAL)
– Ratchet & Clank (PAL)
– Resident Evil 4 (PAL)
– Rogue Galaxy (PAL)
– Sakura Wars ~So Long My Love~ LE (US) *
– Shadow Hearts: From The New World (PAL)
– Shadow of the Colossus LE (PAL) *
– Silent Hill 2 (PAL)
– Sly 2: Band of Thieves (PAL)
– Sly Raccoon (PAL)
– Soul Nomad & the World Eaters (US)
– Spyro: Enter the Dragonfly (PAL, Platinum)
– Star Ocean: Till the End of Time (PAL) *
– Tales of Legendia (US) *
– Tales of the Abyss (US) *
– Valkyrie Profile 2: Silmeria (US)
– We Love Katamari (PAL) *
– Xenosaga (US) *
– Xenosaga Episode II LE (PAL) *
– Xenosaga III (US) *
– Yakuza (PAL) *
– Yakuza 2 (PAL) *
PS3
– Agarest War 2 LE (US)– Agarest War Zero LE (US)
– Agarest: Generations of War (PAL)
– Ar Nosurge: Ode to An Unborn Star CE (US) *
– Ar Tonelico Qoga: Knell of Ar Ciel (US) *
– Atelier Ayesha (PAL)
– Atelier Ayesha Premium Box (JP)
– Atelier Meruru (US)
– Atelier Rorona (US)
– Atelier Totori CE (US)
– Catherine (US) + mini artbook
– Dark Souls CE (US) #
– Dead Space 2 LE (PAL) #
– Demon’s Souls CE (US)
– Disgaea 3: Absence of Justice (US)
– Disgaea 4: A Promise Unforgotten (US)
– Disgaea D2: A Brighter Darkness LE (US)
– Dragon’s Crown (US)
– El Shaddai (US) *
– Fairy Fencer F CE (US) *
– Final Fantasy XIII (Asia JP dialogue, Eng subs)
– Final Fantasy XIII (PAL) #
– Final Fantasy XIII-2 (Asia JP dialogue, Eng subs)
– Final Fantasy XIII-2 (PAL) #
– Fist of the North Star: Ken’s Rage (US)
– Grand Theft Auto IV (US) #
– Hakuna Matata (HK, English)
– Heavy Rain (PAL) #
– Hyperdimension Neptunia (US)
– Hyperdimension Neptunia Mk 2 (US)
– Hyperdimension Neptunia V (US)
– Ico & Shadow of the Colossus Classics HD (US) # *
– Last Rebellion (US)
– LittleBigPlanet (PAL) #
– Metal Gear Solid 4 (US) #
– Mirror’s Edge (PAL)
– Mugen Souls LE (US)
– Ni no Kuni (PAL)
– Persona 4 Arena Ultimax (US)
– Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack in Time (US) #
– Ratchet & Clank: Tools of Destruction (PAL) #
– Resistance 2 (PAL) #
– Resistance: Fall of Man (PAL) #
– Resonance of Fate (US) *
– Shining Resonance (JP) *
– Star Ocean: The Last Hope International (PAL) *
– Tales of Graces f (US) *
– Tales of Symphonia CE (PAL) *
– Tales of Xillia 1st Print (PAL) *
– Tales of Xillia 2 1st Print (PAL) (steelbook) *
– Tears to Tiara II (US) *
– The Guided Fate Paradox LE (US)
– The Idolm@ster 2
– The Idolm@ster: Gravure For You! Vol 1 (JP)
– The Idolm@ster: Gravure For You! Vol 2 (JP)
– The Idolm@ster: Gravure For You! Vol 3 (JP)
– The Idolm@ster: Gravure For You! Vol 4 (JP)
– The Idolm@ster: Gravure For You! Vol 5 (JP)
– The Idolm@ster: Gravure For You! Vol 6 (JP)
– The Idolm@ster: Gravure For You! Vol 7 (JP)
– The Idolm@ster: Gravure For You! Vol 8 (JP)
– The Idolm@ster: Gravure For You! Vol 9 (JP)
– The Witch and the Hundred Knight CE (US)
– Time and Eternity CE (US)
– Trinity Universe (US)
– Uncharted (PAL) #
– Uncharted 2 (PAL) # *
– Uncharted 3 (PAL) #
– Valkyria Chronicles (PAL) *
– Yakuza 3 (PAL) *
– Yakuza 4 (PAL) #*
Gamecube (PAL)
– Animal Crossing (Platinum)– Metroid Prime 2: Echoes
– Rogue Squadron III: Rebel Strike
– Tales of Symphonia
– The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess *
– The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker (Platinum)
– Ty The Tasmanian Tiger 2
Wii
– A Boy And His Blob (PAL)– Arc Rise Fantasia (US)
– Beat the Beat: Rhythm Paradise (PAL)
– Fragile Dreams (US) *
– Klonoa (PAL)
– Madworld (PAL)
– Metroid Prime 3 Corruption (PAL)
– Metroid Prime Trilogy (PAL)
– Monster Hunter Tri (PAL)
– Muramasa: The Demon Blade (US)
– No More Heroes (US)
– Pandora’s Tower CE (PAL)
– Phantom Brave: We Meet Again CE (US)
– Rayman: Raving Rabbids (PAL)
– Sin and Punishment: Successor of the Skies (PAL)
– Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World (US)
– The Last Story CE (PAL)
– Wii Play (PAL)
– Wii Sports (PAL)
– Xenoblade (PAL) *
DS
– 999: Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors (US) *– Cooking Mama (US)
– Dragon Quest IV (US)
– Dragon Quest IX (US)
– Dragon Quest V (US)
– Dragon Quest VI (US)
– Final Fantasy XII: Revenant Wings (US)
– Final Fantasy: The Four Heroes of Light (US)
– Hotel Dusk: Room 2015 (US)
– Lost Window: The Secret of Cape West (PAL)
– Luminous Arc (US)
– Lunar Genesis (PAL)
– Metroid Prime: Hunters (PAL)
– Nanatsuiro Drops DS (JP)
– New Super Mario Bros (PAL)
– Okamiden (PAL) *
– Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan (JP)
– Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney (PAL)
– Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney: Justice For All (PAL)
– Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney: Trials and Tribulations (PAL)
– Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney (PAL)
– Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth (US)
– Professor Layton and Pandora’s Box (PAL)
– Professor Layton and The Lost Future (PAL)
– Professor Layton and The Spectre’s Call (PAL)
– Professor Layton and the Curious Village (PAL)
– Puzzle Quest (US)
– Radiant Historia (US) *
– The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass (US)
– The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks (PAL)
– The World Ends With You (US) *
– Trauma Center: Under the Knife (US)
PSP
– Daxter (PAL, Platinum)– Disgaea: Afternoon of Darkness (PAL)
– Dissidia: Final Fantasy (US)
– Final Fantasy Type-0 (JP)
– God of War: Chains of Olympus (PAL, Platinum)
– Jeanne D’Arc (US)
– Killzone Liberation (PAL, Platinum)
– LocoRoco (PAL, Platinum)
– Nendoroid Generation (JP) *
– Patapon (US)
– Persona 2 LE (PAL, shrinkwrapped)
– Persona 3 Portable LE (PAL)
– Popolocrois (PAL)
– Prinny: Can I Really Be The Hero LE (US)
– Star Ocean: First Departure (US) *
– Star Ocean: Second Evolution (US) *
– Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together LE (PAL) *
– The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky LE (PAL) *
– Valkyria Chronicles 3 Extra Edition (JP) *
– Valkyria Chronicles II (PAL) *
– Valkyrie Profile Lenneth (PAL)
– Yggdra Union (US)
Oh, I forgot – Also selling my Wii U. Premium (black) system – the Mario Kart 8 bundle, plus Hyrule Warriors.
Mrs Tigs would probably be interested in the Professor Layton (I would need to see what she already has) and potentially Ace Attorney games
Sounds good. I need to check how much they’re worth though – I know that Miles Edgeworth Investigates is supposed to be ridiculously rare.
…. Oh man I’ve been thinking about getting one and I’d rather buy one off a TAYbie than EB >.< Did you have a price in mind neg?
Edit: Whoops soz proper etiquette! Hit me up at
its dot reuben at the hotmales dot com=]I’m going to replace it over in the US once Xenoblade comes out probably. Was very close to aborting that plan recently thanks to Splatoon though.
I’ve lost my Trauma Center: Under the Knife game after a bajillion moves. Any chance I can nab it?
Done.
Neato. Can you send me an email to trjnrabbit at the google mails with whatever details you need from me?
What would you want for the Hyperdimension Neptunia games on PS3?
Not very much. They’ve been superseded by the Re;birth remakes on Vita & PC. $5 each + postage?
Deal. Let me know how you want teh munniez.
Yeah, you WOULD tag Ace Combat 6 , EDF 2017, Resonance of Fate, Yakuza titles and El Shaddai with an asterisk. All the GOOD ones!
I’ve actually got RoF, Yakuza and El Shaddai starred because they’re on my (aspirational) todo list. Would part with them for the right offer.
I still play AC6 and EDF2017 periodically when I have my 360 hooked up.
AC6 and EDF 2017 are the only ones I’ve played fully out of those titles and the only ones I’d replay again because damn they are good.
El Shaddai was a good one?
It was a unique obscure arty game.
Apparently it’s like being on drugs:
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2011/06/13/the-hippothalamus
Oh, I have it. Played about 90 minutes before I decided it’s pretty and delightfully weird but one of the crappiest games I’ve ever played. Game play is genuinely awful.
Yeah I came to same conclusion about an hour or two in, and because it was so bloody obscure it came with a relatively high price tag on release =@
Er… good/interesting! I played the demo! It was interesting!
Ni No Kuni isn’t CE by any chance? 😀
It is. But I promised @beavwa if I wanted to part with the book and Mr Drippy plush I’d offer it to him first.
Tidy!
No dramas.
You can have the game, I’ll get one of either that copy or my copy to you.
I just really really really really really really wanted the CE book. Plush is also pretty awesome.
Book is better than the game
Thanks, but I have the game as well. 😛 Same boat as you, wanted the book and the plush but I’m not hell bent on chasing after them.
Yeah, the book is the sought-after item.
I don’t have the box it all came in unfortunately. The CE goes for ridiculous amounts and I wouldn’t ask that of you but I do know the book’s valuable. I’ll figure out a fair price.
Hnnnggghhh?!?
@negativezero – translation: set your fair market price, I shall pay. Thank you for keeping me in mind.
Someone should buy A Boy and His Blob. Was really tough to find when it was released and has a purdy art direction.
Yeah, it’s a very pretty game. Basically shows exactly how old NES/SNES era games should be updated for the modern era. Focus on the art and polish the edges on the mechanics.
Loved the whole jelly bean angle in the original NES version. Crazy clever!
I was intending on saying this and here you’ve gone and already done it.
Excellent game, made me fall in love with WayForward. HUG BUTTON!
Eyeing off Rock Band 1 & 3 but not sure if it’s worth it cause new ones…
If you were in Melbourne I’d totally give them to you just to be rid of the instruments.
Rock Band instruments are such a pain. Either you want them and can’t find them or have them and can’t get rid of them.
Tell me about it. 🙁
Hm… I do have a 360 with zero games now…
What would you want for all of those Halo games?
EDIT: Actually… I don’t even know if the 360 I have is PAL. How can I check? 😛
It’s almost guaranteed to be PAL if it’s in Australia. It’s just weirdo pervs like me that import systems so they can mange idol dance routines, attend virtual hostess clubs and shoot ambiguous white fluid at random anime girls to stop them from hugging you.
I would love to grab:
A boy and his blob
Justice for all (it’s the only one I’m missing!)
I don’t have a lot of PSP games, happy to take up whatever no one else wants.
Again, name your price. We’ll worry about the psp ones later
If no one else snags it, I’d be interested in the first Ace Attorney game. It’s the only one I’m missing. But I own it digitally, so it’d be for collecting purposes only.
Because of that, it should ideally go to someone else who wants to try the series.
Name your price! 🙂
Now we just need to find someone who’s missing the last one.
Hello 😛
TRIFORCE UNITE!
Ooh, that which must be destroyed 😛
How’s the CE for Pandora and Last Story? Also possibly interested in Trials & Tribulations.
Too Human killed my 360. Literally. RRoDed halfway into it.
Last Story CE is a pack with the game, a steelbook (that’s quite nice), soundtrack (the soundtrack was by Uematsu…) and small artbook. Plus a massive thick manual in a million languages.
Pandora’s Tower is game, a steelbook (I haven’t opened the package to know if this is nice) and a small artbook.
Both of them are way out of print and were fairly sought-after I think, though Xenoblade is the real peak of the Operation Rainfall games
I do have AU copies of all of them already, I’m just pondering whether it’d be worth grabbing the extras or not.
HEY! I actually really enjoyed Too Human. Lot of glaring issues, but ridiculously fun and replayable co-op. Still sad we never got the rest of the planned trilogy.
I’m sad the story will never be finished. Really liked that whole SF norse myth thing they had going on.
Yeah it was a bit kooky at first, but I dug it. Kind of like the Stargate Egyptian mythology thing. Very cool.
Hey it wasn’t me who decided it should be destroyed, it was the courts!
dear Neg,
Hey sorry can’t tell what’s been taken, I think I’ve chosen untaken items.
Could you send me prices for:
Shadow Hearts FtnW
Radiant Historia
Persona 2&3 PSP(if 3psp is taken P3F PS2)
Is the mini Catherine artbook good? Can I just buy that?(already own the game).
Also, please include prices for the SMT stuff already agreed on.
Sorry to be a picky shit, I just can never afford to splurge 🙁
Cheersxoxoxx
jimu
I think we settled on $20 + postage for the SMT games. Was going to send you the pair of SMT posters I have too – if you want I also have Shadow Hearts: From The New World posters which I can just biff into the same tube.
Happy to just chuck in the catherine artbook. It’s more like a booklet anyway.
Will add Shadow Hearts for $5 extra. Didn’t pay much more than that for it IIRC.
Radiant Historia is one I know is pretty rare (limited-run Atlus game and also good) and worth $40+, plus it’s one I’d ideally like to hang onto so I’d probably want to get that much for it.
My Persona 2 CE is still sealed and it’s the PAL release so it’s on the rarer side. Not so much the P3P CE I think. Not after a huge amount for them but I’d want to get a reasonable price relative to how much I’d be able to get if I just chucked them on ebay.
Might drop Radiant & P2 then.
I’ll just grab P3P , SHftnw & the Megatens please 🙂
If you’re both interested @jimu I’ve never played Catherine, so I would be interested in the game, but not so much the artbook.
😀
In confirmation of what those of us that care already suspected, Treefrog games has lost the Discworld license. If you’re interested in playing Discworld: Ankh-Morpork or The Witches, grab them now because they’re not going to see another print run for a long, long time. If ever.
Looking around quickly seems like Discworld Ankh-Morpork is already gone from pretty much everywhere unless you want to pay over $200 at Fish pond.
On Tabletop Day, my FLGS was getting rid of their stock as part of the charity auction. I could check if they still have any copies, if you’re interested.
Hmm, if it’s not a hassle?
I’ll call tomorrow. It’s no hassle at all.
Thanks man. Appreciate it.
Must. Not. Switch. Batman. Console. Preorder. Over. To. This.
preeeetttyyyy =O
Indeed. Buy both.
Classy.
What’s for dinner tonight? We’re having devilled sausages and rice.
Attempting a beef mussaman curry. Have about $40 of spices sitting here ready to become magic and/or inedible disaster.
Good Luck! I’m usually lazy and stick with the valcom paste 🙂
Folks cooked an egg, bacon hamburger!
Some kind of bought-in-a-packet spaghetti and meatballs. Wasn’t too bad actually.
Food around here’s been a lot like that since Mum left on a trip the other week…
You don’t cook?
*stifled laughter from audience*
Well, I did get told that I should help out with dinner while she’s away. But between all the leftovers at the start and these meals that keep appearing (close to their use-by date, too), I sort of haven’t had a chance.
But yeah, nah. I’m pretty useless around the house.
I’m sure the combined powers of TAY can teach you to cook lots of things.
One of the problems is I don’t think I’m really suited to cooking. I sort of don’t like it, because it just takes so damn long. For me, at least. I’m the kind of guy who will carefully stick to exact measurements, constantly be running back to check what the recipe says I need to do next (and taking a while to find where I was up to again), also constant running back to the sink to rinse off and wipe my hands whenever they get something on them. At minimum most things take me about three times as long to make as they would for a normal person. IIRC it’s taken me over an hour to make an omelette/frittata, or even just a toasted foccacia filled with various things that needed slicing up.
I get that not everyone finds cooking enjoyable, but it doesn’t have to be hard, and being able to cook at the very least is healthier and saves you money – both good things 🙂
I do find cooking enjoyable – I love hovering around whoever is doing the cooking and picking at the food before it’s done 😛
It’s mostly a motivation thing I guess. The time and effort involved is generally too great to overcome. Especially on my own. Wouldn’t have a problem helping Nanna in the kitchen, or cooking with girlfriends in the past.
I’m also happy to help if you’re up for the challenge 🙂
Can of spaghetti for lunch and Hungry Jacks for tea.
#livingthehighlife
*heart attack*
I had baked beans on toast… Don’t ask why 😛 I’ve never actually eaten baked beans before and walked past them at the shop and thought “y’know what, I’m gonna take the plunge”
Don’t like ’em. Too floury.
What sort of baked beans and what sauce?
Baked beans are at their best when you do them yourself.
Heinz baked beans in tomato sauce 😛 Dunno if they’re meant to be edible or not
About as standard as it gets really.
I was bought up on Watties Baked Beans & Sausages but that shit’s hard to find and nowadays I think it’s just rebranded Heinz anyway.
Heinz make some variation baked beans that are way nicer. Spanish ones with chorizo, mexican-style with salsa and corn and stuff. Those are much nicer.
Also baked beans eaten straight are a bit bland at the best of times. They’re at their best when you use them as an ingredient toward a more elaborate dish.
we had chicken casserole done in the pressure cooker. Chicken, tomatoes, celery, carrot, potatoes all nicely stewed up.
Upvote for the pressure cooker. I am also a fan 🙂
Thought I’d give Muse’s new album Drones a listen. I hated The Resistance and thought 2nd Law was even worse. Didn’t have any hopes.
Something’s wrong. I didn’t hate it. I even liked it. Really dug it to be honest. Think I’ll have to buy this one.
Liked the fact that Psycho is an extension of an intermission riff they did during their lives shows back in the day. Silly grin of recognition when the song started playing.
Right? I hated the last 2 albums and they completely turned me off Muse then tried the new one. So good, been listening to it heaps since it came out. Also, Psycho is great, didn’t know that about it.
From about 4:15 mark.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2DOZCz_fGM
@sernobulus Here is the exact riff from even earlier.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcKVKUmHLWc – 5:30 mark is the exact riff
And from that, even Stockholm Syndrome started out as a jam riff – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFtjYUDXai0
So I caved to wanting to feel like a part of something so I brought ARK, may god have mercy on me and all dinosaurs who eventually eat me.
Most likely my laptop wont run it but oh well I might come back to it if it doesn’t in the future.
If it doesn’t work, you could always get a refund…
Does it work for early access
Not sure if refunds work for early access, but it’s a game I really want, so I’m prepared to wait till I’ve got a PC that can play it, rather than stuff around applying for a refund only to re-buy it later on.
In the refund article people were talking about getting a refund on lego worlds which is EA so apparently you can
Yeah I tried it last night, even on everything lowest laptop couldn’t run it so put in for a refund and will maybe buy again when I get a new computer
Really want that game, but I’m waiting to see if it pops up with a bigger discount during the sale. If it doesn’t I’ll just buy it after the sale finishes.
I’m in the same boat though, laptop probably won’t run it (looking at the requirements I might just scrape in), but I should have a rig that can in roughly 6 months.
Ark is a pretty cool guy. In its current state it’s not very optimised at all so yeah, performance is a bit of an issue… The Dev is extremely active though (on average releasing 2 patches per day currently) and has stated that their main priority at the moment is performance optimisation, so it should be getting better and better.
NUMENERA: TALES OF THE NINTH WORLD
Scrappa: Bought sensible clothing @tech_knight
Blaghs: Failed to impress science pirates @blaghman
Elandar: Will become tentacular @popdart5
Thanks for playing guys!
Action Replay:
“I, THE GREAT AND MIGHTY FRUND, DEMAND TRIBUTE.”
> GIve food
“THIS PLEASES FRUND.”
You didn’t so much give food, as he took food once you showed it to him.
Still better than dried fish
So it looks like there’s another Hyrule Warriors on its way, for 3DS. The video was here, but has now been switched from unlisted to private. Looks like there’s more Tingle action, which is great! And the King of Red Lions, who turns into a boat.
BUT STILL NO SIGN OF LINEBECK >:[
I hope they release the new characters as DLC for the WiiU version as well
Man, I hate leaks. I want surprises at E3, dammit.
But it’s a suprise now, isn’t it?
I’m happy anyway…
Sorry.
*Spoilers
Don’t worry, I saw this about three times before even loading TAY 😛
Woke up to my radio, then Max started meowing at me.
Brekky time.
Payday 2 day. Been looking forward to starting again on console. Love that game. Friday tomorrow as well, which is also my actual paydayl. (I get paid monthly, it’s a little more exciting for me) Then I go pick up my spankin’ new rifle on Saturday. Won’t be able to take it to the range to sight it in and play for a couple of weeks yet, but still pretty excited.
Any particular reason you’re keen to play it on console compared to PC?
Well, I smashed it within an inch of it’s life on PC, and a console rerelease for some reason makes me feel like it’s a good reason to start again. Not sure why, but the idea of going back to the PC version doesn’t appeal to me. Might be Borderlands 2 syndrome where I just played it too hard and my brain has some sort of odd aversion to it. Weird, I know.
Also, this time around I’d like to enjoy the ‘vegetate-on-my-couch-with-controller-in-hand-instead-of-sitting-at-my-desk’ aspect. I have an odd relationship with my PC and consoles. I love both equally, but for entirely different reasons, and greatly depending on my mood.
Fair enough. I don’t think I could ever really enjoy Payday 2 on console. Not a KBM vs controller thing, it’s just too brutal a game on high difficult for me to be able to melt into a lounge 😛
I was actually going to post didn’t Payday 2 come out a while back? then read Rize’s comment =p
Yup, seeing this article is kind of weird. My post is paraphrased and referenced. Nobody reads the words that I write. Nobody.
Can I get a job rewriting articles to repost on the same damn website?
You should let me get a job writing the articles first. It’ll be more efficient because then I can just email the articles to you, saving you the hassle of loading up the website.
Yeah, I thought that was a bit weird/discourteous.
Something isn’t covered on Kotaku unless an AMERICAN covers it? I guess it’s like colonialism.
That’s just part of how Kotaku works. The non-US sites republish most of what the US site writes but the US site rarely does the same. It’s because Kotaku US is Kotaku Prime (and also the licensing deal, which I barely understand). So I wrote something and a week later, it comes to the attention of the US site and they decide to rewrite it with current information. No biggy.
The bit that’s weird to me is that the US bit is clearly just a combination of what I wrote and a Yahoo article from this morning.
Interestingly enough, the Yahoo article uses the exact same Twitch VOD link that my article uses (I pulled it from a Reddit post). Makes me wonder if they saw my post as well or if they referenced the same stuff that I did. It’s not like the information I used was hard to track down.
Well, I mean… Kotaku Prime as US is obvious, but we’ve seen them republish Kotaku UK articles. Why would it be different to republish a well-done AU one? That’s where I felt the discourtesy comes in. Like… did it really need to be re-written?
My article wasn’t well-done. :p Some AU content has made it to the US site but I don’t exactly actively monitor it to see.
Anyhow, they linked to my post. So that was nice.
Wait, your name is adam? I just assumed any articles by you got posted under Trjn, learn something new everyday
I started asking Mark to put anything I wrote up under my name. I’m pretty sure that it’s only happened twice so far. It just means it’d be easier to reference them if I ever did some freelancing.
Makes sense, now we know you by your real name real name..
Yes but you’d need a lock of my hair or some toenails if you wanted to do some witchcraft.
Want to play boardgames sometime? *hides scissors*
Just bought Lego Jurassic World from Greenmangaming, ($40 plus 20% off voucher, so I paid $32), and then I find out that no keys will be released until release day, so I can’t pre-load. Damn Americans, why you have to be so behind.
Also, no PC requirements have been released yet, so not sure if my laptop will run it. It can run Lego Batman 3, so I should be pretty safe. *crosses fingers*
Edit: Glad I used that discount voucher, just got the receipt for it and apparently $32USD is about $42AUD. I’m positive the Aussie dollar was worth more than $1USD not even 12 months ago. How the hell has it dropped that much so quickly.
How was the film?! *hyperventilates*
Sadly, not as good as what I was expecting. for me Mad Max: Fury Road, Avengers: Age Of Ultron and Chappie all lived up to the hype, but this, not so much. It was still good though, just not great.
Was expecting a 4.5 – 5/5, but for me it was more like a 3.5/5
AUD has been shit compared to USD for a while now, unfortunately. It’s really nice when you have the option in some places to pay via a Canadian store, cause we nearly have parity with CAD 😛
I knew it had dropped, but I didn’t realize it was in the 0.75c range.
Weakening economy and GDP, lower interest rates and increased sentiment that the Fed’s are going to increase their interest rates makes our currency a lot less attractive. We’ve actually got one of the slowest economies in the world at the moment.
It’s better being lower than the US dollar. Sucks for this sort of stuff, but it’s great for manufacturing industries.
Yep, I’ve slowed to a stop on us purchases.
New Hellblade trailer from Ninja Theory. (Enslaved/Heavenly Sword/DmC)
Looks intriguing!
Green Man Gaming keep sending me increasingly valuable “We miss you!” discount vouchers.
Reckon if I hold out long enough they’ll just start sending me stuff for free.
Or they’ll key your car.
That’s my plan!
Morning all!
If you have a spare few minutes, would you mind casting a quick vote for Undad here please: https://www.thisisnew.com/stories/786
The prize is a $5000 trailer, which I could put to very good use with my next project.
Thanks in advance.
Your humble supplicant
Will do later – have to sign up for an account. You should spam the kickstarter with an update about this too I think.
Also, have you ever thought about investigating Patreon for your stuff?
I have indeed, but I’m sincerely intending for the Undad#2 Kickstarter to be the last instance of me hitting folks up for money in this way.
I don’t like doing it, and honestly feel a little guilty that it’s often the same people coming to the party each time. (But not guilty enough to refuse money. (And then that generates a whole fresh wave of guilt.))
Patreon would be different though. You’re effectively selling a subscription service for access to your work.
Well I told you what happened when Mrs Tigs had a ‘quick’ look at undad
I wouldn’t be too concerned with asking us for more money, we are all big enough to say no if we don’t want to give again. I mean we don’t even have to SAY no, just do nothing
Last semester of Uni I had to do a group project for an assignment for one of my subjects. Got a text message yesterday from one of the members of my group telling me to check my student email because the teacher was trying to get in contact with us asap.
Turns out the teacher has accused my group of plagiarizing our work because it was of too high a quality. She asked that we send her proof that our work was actually ours. I sent my proof along, but it seems she’s giving another guy in the group even more of a hard time for one aspect of the project he worked on. She’s apparantly refusing to grade it, which is stupid because it meets all the assignment criteria and doesn’t go against anything in the assignment or what she’s said in class.
Hoping this’ll get sorted out soon for everyone in the group, myself included. We all worked really hard on the assignment and this really feels like a kick in the teeth after all that hard work.
My personal experience, most uni teachers are arseholes. I have met some good/nice ones, but they’ve been outweighed by loudmouthed egotistical prats who excel at reading Powerpoint presentations and forcing you to buy their book.
Here’s hoping it all gets sorted painlessly for you.
Thanks.
All my other teachers last semester were great, but this one certainly falls into the egotistical catagory. I’m glad I won’t have to deal with her again (hopefully).
Try to keep in mind that teaching isn’t generally a priority for university lecturers. They’re not employed to teach. They’re researchers, and their focus is usually on their own research, and that of their phd students. Quality research is what raises the reputation of the university and brings in the Big Funding Monies.
Teaching undergrad courses is usually a requirement of their employment with the university and first year courses are regarded worst of all. A lecturer who actually enjoys teaching those courses is a rare thing. This is why a lot of lecturers will do the lecturing and try to delegate as much of the rest of the work to tutors (who are usually honors/masters students themselves).
It’s not that they don’t like you, you’re just not that important in the university heirarchy when you are an undergrad student.
Need new headset as mine fell apart. Need suggestions. Don’t want Steelseries as they’re the ones that fell apart and once bitten twice shy.
Had a couple of suggestions for AudioTechnica now, including from AudioTechnica themselves on Twitter.
Anyone had any experience with the Astros? They seem to review quite well but peripheral reviews on the internet always feel like spec sheets or advertising.
There’s also the Sennheiser G4ME ZER0 but they’re only 2.1 and that horrible horrible name :/
I’ve had a pair of the Razer Cacharias for a couple of years now, and they’ve never missed a beat. Just a bog 2 channel headset, nothing fancy, but they’ve worked great. Only cost like $60 or $70 too, from memory. But I only use them for comms, sound quality doesn’t mean a lot to me.
I’ve got a pair of Audio Technica ATH-M50x, while not a headset, they’re possibly the nicest sounding set of headphones I’ve ever owned. Also well made. Then again, for $250, I should fucking hope so.
Give me 25fps at 720p and I’m perfectly happy. Give me muddy or fuzzy sound and I’m likely to break something.
Well, I can vouch that Audio Technica make some really nice stuff. I’m far from an audiophile, but damn if the sound out of those ATH-M50x’s didn’t blow my socks off. Trouble is, now I’m spoilt and probably can’t go back. Same thing happened with my first set of Sennheisers all those years ago. (HD 212 Pros? I think?) These are just better again.
Considering they’ve been $200 RRP since release, I’m pretty sure you’re doing it wrong 😛
But yeah, they’re great. I own 2 pairs (1 for home, 1 for work) and they are outstanding.
Well I bought them a while ago, maybe I’m getting the price mixed up. Or I got ripped off. Either way, great headphones.
Headsets make my ears hot.
#helping
Most “gaming” headsets seem to be decent audio quality, shitty build quality. I would recommend either getting a gaming headset with a good warranty that covers falling apart (consoles and PC) or getting a good headset and a separate desktop mic (PC).
EDIT: Sennheiser is a good brand, don’t know much about individual models though.
@freezespreston
This is why I recommended Audio-Technica. Their gaming headsets are basically their standard headsets with a mic attached. Unlike a lot of gaming headset brands (Logitech, Razor, SteelSeries etc), they are an audio company first.
For reference, I use a set of Audio-Technica ATH-M50X headphones at both work where I listen to music all day and home where I play video games. They’re the best headset I’ve ever owned and are comfortable to wear for extended periods of time, even with my fat head.
Or buy from Costco, with their apparently-fantastic returns policy.
Unless you want to spend some serious dollars, most “surround” headsets will be doing virtualised surround sound and still only be rocking 2 drivers. The closest I’ve come to finding a decent virtualised surround headset are the Logitech G35s.
Good stereo headphones over virtualised surround any day.
Or you go the ‘true’ 7.1 headsets, which are just fucking terrible because they’ve had to split the cost across all the extra drivers, etc required for 7.1, and the end result is cheap and nasty sound.
Yes.
$350+ for most true 7.1 headsets and they all have average or below reviews. They’re like tying together a couple of Barinas and expecting the resulting mass to drive like an F1.
I have a pair of Turtle Beach XP500s, they were near $400 when new and I can vouch for them being fantastic. I’d use them but for some reason the mic doesn’t work on PC.
Aren’t they virtual surround? Could be thinking of different ones.
Also, I had a friend complaining about his Turtle Beach headset a few weeks ago, specifically because he had to buy an extra cable to make the mic work on his computer. Might be the same for yours?
They are, but they sound as good as any high end 2.1 sets I’ve heard with the added surround effect. The sound of being surrounded by trees creaking in the wind with an animal making noises behind you in the Witcher 3 is pretty amaze balls.
Oh yeah, I have that with my G35s. The creaking trees still spook me out when I’m sneaking through a forest…
I bought a (wired) USB headset with mic when Destiny came out, FOR Destiny. Turtle Beach P12. It’s marketed as being for PS4, but it works great on PC and the quality is so good that I pretty much ferry it back and forth to whichever machine I’m using. Cheap as chips, too.
I remember seeing some headset talk somewhere a while back, and a fair few people there seemed to be pretty keen on the Sennheiser 363D as being a good set.
OI TAY; it’s Thursday and we aren’t even at Page 6! NOT ACCEPTABLE.
You’re not acceptable!
WHAT?! Who even are you.
To be fair, public holiday Monday means we missed a day. So it’s only WednesTay.
Well, @pupp3tmast3r…
Miscount?
Mis tag. Count was right, needed a filler post, but puppetmaster uses 3s in his username.
I can be sneaky like that =p
It’s page 5 now. Are you happy?
cc @pupp3tmast3r
I’m one page away from being happy =p Make it happen red!
So, a Thursday Taydrenalin shot: I know a lot of people here are play Dark Souls, but some of you played Demons Souls before Dark Souls became an underground hit. So My Question is:
What’s your favourite “cult” game? What’s your game that you’ve played an enjoyed but never quite made it as a bestseller/is too niche to ever make it?
I know Crusader Kings II is always going to be a fringe title, but I love it so.
Gabriel Knight! (Though I think the first was a best seller back in the day. :P)
Damn. Probably every tenth game on the crappy ‘1000 games for Windows 95!’ CD I got with my 486 in the 90s.
It could always be that these games were insanely popular and I just never heard about it because the internet kind of didn’t exist for home users at that point and certainly not for any coherent discussion on gaming. The school was my macrocosm.
I’ll always have a place in my heart for Skunny Kart
Wacky Wheels! It’s NOW ON STEAM!
Attack of the Friday Monsters
/same answer as always
Tales (Symphonia/Vesperia) I guess… They were really excited when a later Tales game (Xillia?) made 1 million worldwide so I guess it’s been kinda niche over the years. I’m definitely counting Vesperia since it was my most worthwhile preorder ever (otherwise the store wouldn’t have bothered getting a copy).
I was also a fan of other more obvious options like Demon’s Souls and Fahrenheit…
Armored Core. It’s just the most gorgeous and technically detailed mecha series bar none. Depending on the title in the series, you can build your own mechs to just astonishing detail. You can change individual parts, sure – but you can tune each part individually again. Then you can start messing with programming it’s AI to change it’s behavior and performance on top of all that.
It’s just….. hngh.
I wish Armored Core was a more well known gam, i loved verdict day
If you liked Verdict Day, check out Armored Core For Answer on PS3. Possibly my favorite one in the series. Verdict Day was pretty much Armored Core 5.1 – still awesome though!
Spelunky, which is in a very odd little niche.
It picked up a game of the year award when it came out and has a reputation for being difficult. Mostly though, it’s just one of those games that will get the occasional post when someone breaks a speedrunning or score record in it. Oddly enough, the latest score world record hasn’t got any coverage.
It’s just one of those games that games journalists are aware of as a speedrunning title.
Does Syphon Filter count? No one ever talks about it but I’ve always had it sitting on PSP or PSV for a play regularly.
Same with Vagrant Story.
Vagrant Story was brilliant. That and Front Mission 3 are probably my two favorite ‘obscure’ PSX titles.
Front Mission 3 was amazing, really enjoyed it
Oh man, Syphon Filter was good fun
I need to grab Vagrant Story and replay it. Such a great game.
It’s on PSN for cheaps!
I would lean towards emulating it to tidy the graphics up a bit 😛
Can’t remember if I still have my (very) old PS1 copy of it hiding somewhere.
Remember Me
I wouldn’t mind seeing Dontnod attempt Remember Me again post-Life is Strange. Even using the Life is Strange story/episodic approach! *strokes beard*
Gitaroo Man! \o/
Only a cult game because everyone who didn’t buy it had shit taste. >:(
I’d love to have had a copy of that game but it was ridiculously rare.
I picked up a copy completely randomly at EB when it came out, knew nothing about it, was just playing a lot of music games (inc. DDR) at the time and thought it looked neat. Love it.
No idea how popular it was (it is ancient), but I really loved Pyro II. I doubt it could even get made these days, but it was a great little puzzle game!
Cult game..Fallout Tactics, beaten that game so many times and never gets old
+1. Having a squad at your disposal really made the Fallout combat come into it’s own.
I’m not entirely sure how much of a cult game this is but Disgaea, played 1-4 pretty religiously never completed any of them but probably have about 500 hours across the four of them in game time =p
Ar Tonelico. Especially the second one. On the surface they’re crappily made B-tier innuendo-laden JRPGs. But there’s something about them that always clicked for me. Ar Tonelico II had the added issue of a shitty, broken localization complete with cut dialogue from the Japanese version (they freed up space for the dub by removing Japanese lines), stuff that was translated plain wrong or inconsistently, and a bug that would crash the game if you couldn’t beat a boss before she used a certain attack around the 3rd or 4th round. Yet despite all those problems, AT2 was one of my favourite games on PS2.
Grandia II was another one that I absolutely loved. Dreamcast in that case. Utterly linear JRPG, terrible dub, but the combat is fantastic and the plot is solid and it’s just a really great experience. Skies of Arcadia was the other big JRPG on the Dreamcast that we got in English, and it was probably even more of a cult thing since it was hard to find and never got a follow-up, but was very well-loved.
I’d have suggested Okami or Jet Set Radio Future but I feel like both of those games have transitioned out of cult status into games that are generally fairly well-recognized and respected in the last few years. Same as Ico or Shadow of the Colossus.
Earth Defense Force was the definition of a cult game I think, but again, those games have generated enough buzz over time that they’re probably not cult any more.
Ace Combat 6 has the dubious distinction of being the last good Ace Combat game. A lot of people panned it for having a pedestrian story and awful, awful voice acting compared to the PS2 installments, and also being a bit too easy, but I loved it and still pull it out and play through the campaign periodically. I also had all the Idolmaster DLC planes, and there’s something quite fulfilling about the whole super-serious air war that’s going on while you’re flying around in an F-22 painted in red and white with a giant anime girl on the wing and shooting pink missile death everywhere. I like to think that the player character was the only surviving member of some kind of itinerant Blue Angels-style stunt team slash idol singer, like something out of Macross. It’s probably not really a cult game though, when the franchise has something like eight main installments and a shitton of spinoffs and ports.
Always meant to get into Ace Combat, but never did. Always looked like a load of arcadey-fun, with smatterings of realism thrown in.
Basically yeah. It’s like if a flight sim and an arcade shmup like Raiden or 1942 had a baby.
My library seems to be made up of niche for the most part.
Little King’s Story is probably the main one my mind goes to. Although for even more niche, Minon: Everyday Hero. Ain’t nobody gonna champion that one, ever.
Nier!
I really should replay that. Again, and again, and again. 😀
I also require page 6 to appear in a timely fashion.
Reply fail 🙁
Every page is page 6.
In that case…
What do you call a Deer with no eyes?
No IdeaWhat do you call a deer with no eyes and no legs?
Still no idea.What do you call a man with a rabbit up his jumper?
Warren.What do you call a man with leaves up his jumper?
Russell.What do you call a lady with one leg longer than the other?
Eileen.@cakesmith @powalen @f4ction @rocketman @pixel_the_ferret_viking @sernobulus @gorzilla @blaghman
MEGANEURA!
PET DRAGONFLY.
In.
In.
In.
Man, TAY must be really empty. I’m hearing an echo.
echo
echo…
echo…
Out … crap, I mean In.
Echo.
I just… I just can’t any more.
http://www.news.com.au/finance/economy/tony-abbott-says-his-daughter-proves-it-is-possible-for-young-people-to-get-on-the-property-ladder/story-fnu2pwk8-1227392710384
Ignoring all the financial support and preferential treatment she’d get due to her dad, didn’t she get a bunch of scholarships she shouldn’t have?
I think that was the other one, Frances.
THERE’S MORE THAN ONE?!?
#StopTheAbboats
See. It is possible.
Edit: snarky commentary removed. Drawback of being a public servant.
Horse shit.
@freezespreston The Games Capital has The Witches in stock (both normal and collector’s editions) but Discworld: Ankh-Morpork has been out of stock for a while.
You can buy it from them online or give them a call and they can ship it to you. It’d probably cost about the same (although they said $80 for collector’s edition over the phone while it’s $68 online).
The game itself is okay. It’s much better if you’re a fan of the Tiffany Aching/Granny Weatherwax books.
I bought Discworld : Aknh-Morpork for my housemate a couple of years ago. Never actually played it yet though. Any good?
I liked it when I first played it but didn’t enjoy it when I played it more recently. Admittedly, when I played it more recently, I completely fucked up the setup which made the game very, very imbalanced. So it’s hard to have a solid impression of the game.
The game is based around territory control but your actions are based around playing the cards in your hand. You get to play one card a turn and then refill your hand, so cards that let you play more cards are pretty powerful. It’s not the deepest game ever made but there’s fun to be had and playing around multiple (hidden) win conditions is definitely interesting.
Most importantly, it’s dripping with flavour. If you like Discworld, it’s worth it just for the first time someone plays Death’s card.
Thanks for that. Not overly interested in Witcher however. Guess I’ll just keep fingers crossed I’ll stumble across it somewhere for a reasonable price.
You’re not overly interested in the Witcher?! Is your freudian slip showing freeze =P
I just wanted to fit in. 🙁
Bad news, it’s been a while since the last print run.
‘A Christian Canberran husband and wife say they’ll divorce in protest if the government amends marriage regulations to include same sex couples.’
wut
Because marriage is so precious that it should be ended as a political stunt.
dickheads.
But wouldn’t they be living in sin as a result of their divorce? I’m not religious, so I could be wrong, but would be pretty funny if true. Then they’d probably argue Jesus would be OK with it because they’re protesting them pesky queers.
Jesus would weep at a lot of modern christians.
Gross lack of compassion.
Perhaps the two
were already headed towards Splitsville andhave realised this could be their fifteen minutes of fame?They want to follow their hearts, just like gay people! I’m all for it. :\
Nice to see that the institution of marriage means so much to them.
How childish. I’m sure they will do their little stunt, and NO ONE WILL CARE.
EDIT: Heterosexual couples have done more than enough to ruin the “sanctity” of marriage, just another example.
There was a tweet going around that has since been deleted of one of his Facebook friends laughing because he slept with him in high school.
Because they’re both secretly gay and once the legislation is passed there’s no reason for them to stay married any more?
A stern warning against the sin of fornication, every few pages? Regular detail on the keeping of slaves, death penalties, the subjugation of women and their position as furniture? Well, obviously times have changed. The text shouldn’t be taken literally, it’s a guide, to be sensibly adjusted to modern sensibilities, taken in the spirit of things. Why, if we paid heed to every obscure reference to acceptable behaviors, we’d never shave our beards, let alone get tattoos or eat shellfish.
An obscure reference to men laying with men? GOSPEL. GREATEST SIN IN EYES OF MAN AND GOD, UNSPEAKABLE EVIL, GREATEST THREAT TO MORALITY THERE IS.
Threat to someone’s delicate sensibilities, more like. Morons.
I’ve never understood why companies reveal their games pre E3 :S
Like, I’ve seen a couple of trailers titled “E3 2015 trailer” these past few weeks…
I thought E3 was supposed to be where games were revealed and new trailers were shown :S
Because you can either reveal them at E3 and hope you cut through the noise, or reveal it in advance and get 24 hours of coverage.
Look how hyped we all got for Fallout
Also, WOO FALLOUT
You’d still be hyped for Fallout if it were announced at E3 though, if not more hyped…
And it would have made the event more memorable, and probably have won some of those journalist awards (best game at E3, etc).
Not that they mean anything, but it’s always good publicity.
But it means it’s not competing with hype for other things. They got 24 hours solid coverage that wasn’t broken up by “ALSO MIRROR’S EDGE” or “ALSO UNCHARTED”
The awards are nice, but in this day and age having solid, uninterrupted convos on social media is worth more.
Competing with hype?
I don’t just get hyped for one game at a time.
Competing for coverage, maybe, but with such a big announcement it is basically guaranteed to receive ample attention.
Might just be my preferencial tastes, but I like going through all of E3 news and seeing what excites me.
Oh, you can filter through E3 news, and there’s sure to be some surprises. Getting exclusive coverage, or dominating a discussion, is a much more powerful marketing tool
Maybe so, but I don’t like how they do it so close to E3. Before, after, or during, I think anyway.
I still think big games would benefit more from E3 coverage, but that’s just me.
Prolonged coverage, media attention, media awards, numerous highlight spots on games websites, numerous dedicated articles, social media attention, etc.
Just me though.
I get hype fatigue pretty fast.
I hear you get “fatigued” pretty fast in general…
If ya’ know…
What I’m…
Saying…
The ladies…
They don’t like.
Eeeennnnhhhhh… I’ll pay it. 🙂
Pretty sure my Fallout 4 hype train was hurtling along at speeds exceeding the Shinkansen already. Revealing it before E3 was probably a blessing for all because my hype might’ve built to such levels that I could’ve hurt myself or my friends in the process.
No one wants that.
I’ll be in the corner with Fallout 4 hype hooked directly into my veins, and a vacant grin from ear to ear.
Seriously though if they launched Fallout 4 at E3 without a leak that would be all anybody talked about coming from E3. It would have dominated and really blocked a lot of coverage of competitors games
For smaller games it’s probably so they don’t get lost in the crowd and for bigger games it’s probably to build excitement for the on stage demonstration. But yeah, I certainly hope there’s more unannounced surprises. (Like a Quantic Dream PS4 game! :P)
But it takes away from those big surprise moments that make the event so memorable!
I hope there is still a few surprise announcements to (like a Quantic Dream PS4 bundle (it’ll happen!)).
I just like seeing all the news at E3.
I like it all being there, kinda thing.
You see, I’m the other way. I’ve never watched an e3 live & always gather my information elsewhere. I couldn’t tell you what games were first revealed at e3 or where I actually found out.
The news itself excites me, not the location, date or way it was revealed.
I will always remember watching a Ninty direct when I had bad gastro, sitting on the crapper cheering because they just announced Pokemon X&Y though.
I don’t get how mentioning something during e3 would help much.
I’d imagine smaller games should hold out til the hype dies down then do it.
Surely a reveal at e3 runs the risk of disappearing amongst the noise.
Helps if you get specific time in MS / Sony press conferences, but not much else.
Witcher 3 talks
(spoilers: don’t read unless you’ve finished Novigrad)
So, I did the quest where you help Dandelion by pretending to be a bandit. Oh my god, I haven’t laughed that hard in so long. Best quest ever!I love how the script for their ‘encounter’ is in your inventory too. So good.Wait till you do the quest after that quest!
Edit: Not funny but definitely very memorable for a side quest!
I already did!
I DONT WANT TO TALK ABOUT THE REST OF THE QUEST CHAIN BECAUSE DEPRESSING! Honestly though, it was actually a really good quest chain. Great to see some character development with Dandelion.Yeah, wasn’t expecting a quest chain like that to result from everything. Probably one of the best chains in the game so far for me.
I’ve done so much exploration and side stuff but I’m only just starting to get into Novigrad now. I really should get going with the main story before I get bored…
Also, I walk a surprising amount in TW3. You’d be (not even remotely) amazed how much this slows things down.
I went off script and called him an asshole.I am such a good wingman. Did not tell any of the ladies the illusion-shattering truths about him.Haha same. We had the same discussion at the Bris meat last weekend. =P
We learned that Freeze is a horrible wingman.
In all the years Freeze has known me he has NEVER helped me with the ladies.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Despite his best efforts 😉
Destiny peeps; PvP question. Myself and Jocon have been doing quite a bit of PvP in the past two days and have noticed consistently bad latency (people teleporting, shots hitting someone but not registering, players moving much faster than usual, etc, etc.) across 80% of our matches? Does anyone else in AU have this problem? I recall Destiny’s servers being a lot friendlier to AU players =\
I never see that problem, and I’ve paid far too much PvP than I care to admit…
There was one time I thought someone might be “lag switching”, but instead decided that he was just lagging 😛
I can’t remember quite who it was, possibly @kermitron, but someone has had a God awful time with PvP.
It’s been pretty bad lately, especially during Iron Banner last week.
Lots of complaints from US players as well, who usually don’t have the same complaints as we do.
There’s all kinds of issues with NSW Internet infrastructure lately which could be involved, but there’s also a good chance (if Destiny is like most games) that you have bad luck and you’re being matched with people outside of Australia.
I’m pretty sure Crucible matches are peer to peer, like CoD, etc – no dedicated servers. Someone playing is the host – so if it’s an American, or someone with a rubbish connection, etc, everyone suffers.
I get mixed results, depending on the time of day too. Most games (80%+) are fine. The remaining 20% are a mixed bag of slight lag, annoying, but acceptable, and straight up ‘I just can’t kill people, they’re bulletproof and teleporting’ awful.
OMG YOU GUYS!
They Might Be Giants are touring in November! And they’re doing an ALL AGES GIG in Sydney! \o/
Mr 4 gets to see them! *happy dance*
That statement doesn’t even need the asterisks either!
“Mr 4 gets to see them happy dance!”
OMG YOU GUYS!
Two Rooms and a Boom is finally shipping! Well, the US shipment is something something… it doesn’t matter. The important thing is that international backers should start seeing their copies in a few weeks and people that preordered shouldn’t have to wait much longer than that. We may even see retail copies some time before PAX.
I want a retail copy. I want one very much. I want one very much so that I can organise another massive game of it at PAX this year.
I’m red!
Oh dear. She’s stuck in an infinite loop and he’s an idiot.
I love that line.
OMG YOU GUYS!
I have nothing to say I just wanted to feel like a part of something.
This guy! THIS GUY!
OMG YOU GUYS!
Penis *Unzips pants*.
Has page 6 started already?
I believe that should be saved for they mythical page 18
You.
I like you.
OMG YOU GUYS!
Actually, as an atheist, there’s no “my” god.
OM CULTURAL EXPRESSION THAT I USE IN A VERNACULAR SENSE AND TOTALLY DON’T USE AS AN ENDORSEMENT OF THE CONCEPT OF A HIGHER POWER YOU GUYS
OYG?
GYG?
OMGs (in the mythical sense)
OH MY
OM-FUCKING-G YOU GUYS.
ALSO, HI TAY.
MY PC IS DYING. I’VE ALMOST CONVINCED MYSELF TO BUILD A NEW ONE.
I’M SORTA TEMPTED TO BUILD A TOTAL OVERKILL MACHINE AGAIN.
BUT THEN AGAIN, I’M ALSO SORTA TEMPTED TO BE A RESPONSIBLE ADULT ABOUT IT.
I HAVE NO IDEA HOW TO RECONCILE THIS.
COULD PROBABLY GET A FAIRLY BEASTLY RIG FOR $1500-$2K
WHAT’S HAPPENING WITH YOU LOT?
ALSO, IT’S THURSDAY & YOU’RE ONLY ON PAGE 5. THIS SURPRISES & SLIGHTLY DISAPPOINTS ME.
IF YOU’RE EXPECTING SOMETHING DECENT FROM IT, YOU COULD WAIT UNTIL AFTER TAX TIME SO YOU HAVE SOME SPARE FUNDS. THAT’S WHAT MY CURRENT PLAN IS.
WHY ARE WE YELLING?
MY TAX RETURN IS USUALLY NOT AWE-INSPIRING. BUT YOU MAKE A GOOD POINT NEVERTHELESS. I’LL JUST JAM SOME DUCT TAPE INTO MY CURRENT RIG & HOPE THAT IT HOLD OUT FOR A FEW MORE WEEKS.
ALSO, CONSISTENCY. WE’RE YELLING BECAUSE CONSISTENCY.
I’M HOPING THIS TAX RETURN WILL BE A CRACKER FOR ME, AS I DIDN’T WORK FOR FOUR MONTHS THEN WAS TAXED AT MY CURRENT SALARY FOR HALF A YEAR.
HOPEFULLY I CAN ALSO DEDUCT MYSELF UNDER THE HECS THRESHOLD
OH-EM-GEE HOLY FLAMING SHITFUCK.
THIS BASTARD POPS UP, CAPS LOCK FULLY ENGAGED LIKE SOME SORT OF OBNOXIOUS TAY VERSION OF SAMUEL JACKSON. NO I CAN’T STOP YELLING, THIS IS HOW I TALK. HAVEN’T YOU SEEN ANY OF MY MOVIES? DEEP BLUE SEA? THAT WAS A GOOD ONE. A FUCKIN’ SHARK ATE ME.
caps-lock? nah man. shift all the way.
Dude. *fist bump*
COMMITMENT.
CAPS LOCK.
IT’LL GETCHA DRUNK.
Overkill machines are lurverly. Especially since every new advance in cooling technology seems to get quieter and quieter. You end up sitting on an impossible-to-carry demigod, purring away with latent, untapped power, scoffing derisively at any game you choose to throw at it.
It’s a good feeling. A proud moment when you slaughter the white whale of graphics settings that were once denied you for so long.
OMG YOU GUYS!
Marvel Puzzle Quest peeps: You now have a default 10 health packs instead of 5 to use, so don’t get shy about spamming them during the dying stages of a PVP round.
Also, levelling at the high end for 3* heroes sucks balls. I have to spend over 200,000 iso-8 just to get Rocket and Groot (lvl 145), Captain Marvel (lvl 154), The Hood (lvl 155) and Mystique (lvl 155) to max level 166.
I’m also just filling up space until page 6 when @haggis can shine.
EDIT: Way to break the chain @35. (jk!)
I’M SORRY. I SORTA FIXED IT.
I hate making decisions on expensive purchases 🙁
OMG YOU GUYS
What are we deciding?
Headsets. Tayfolk are recommending the AudioTechnica ATH-AG1 but internet consensus is they’re aren’t worth the price.
The Astro A40 seems to be what the internet tells me to get but no one here has ever spoken about them.
Torn between people I know opinions and general consensus.
I have a logitech G930, if that helps.
I paid nothing for it.
I came very, very close to getting the ATH-ADG1 (same thing as the AG1 but open instead of closed back) but I decided not to after I resurrected my broken Steelseries Syberia v2s. The big issues holding me back were the high price (I’m very rough on headphones), the fact that the mic doesn’t fold all the way out of the way so it’s constantly in your peripheral vision, and the fact it requires amplification to get the best out of it.
I loved my Syberias but they fell apart after about 6 months and not really happy spending a bunch on another set after that.
Must have been bad luck. My pairs both lasted at least 9 months before I broke them 😛
I don’t personally have the A40 but a friend in Adelaide does and he raves about them any time anybody asks about headphones. So…. 3rd hand yay?
It’s okay, you don’t have to get me anything that expensive.
All the more reason to think less and impulse buy. Buyer’s remorse is for saps.
Damn the man.
Save the empire.
Consumerism will be your savior.
Pay for it on your new virgin money credit card! nothing says punk rock like a credit card!
Suppose if I get them from EB I can always take them back if I’m not happy.
Ugh EB. Don’t give money to those grotty little bastards! =P
*looks at EB card in shame*
They told me I should give someone my Level 4 card because I have enough points to get a second level 4 card with change.
Not sure that’s a good thing…
Woah. I was totally Prideshamed when I swapped my orange L1 card for a green L2 card about two months ago.
I’m a measly level 2 but I only got that cos I traded in like a 100 games a few years back? I hadn’t discovered TAY yet so it was either EB or chuck em out =p
You have spent a lot more money at eb than me.
OMG YOU GUYS
There are days when it’s hard being a public servant and having to remain apolitical in public. Today is very much one of those days.
OMG YOU GUYS!
I’ve started XCOM again because I can’t wait for November and I’ve decided to name all my soldiers after household tools. That is all.
#questforpage6
OMG PUPPETMASTER
You’re not adhering to the “name after taybie” convention!
Aw that’s just cos I love you TAYbies so much I couldn’t even put you in harm’s away metaphorically =P
*cough* tool names are cooler *cough*
But you’ll never know the thrill of @freezespreston carrying a team through disaster after disaster with an accuracy not matched by the raw numbers, or the moment when @dc gets mind-controlled and blows @transientmind into atoms. Or @strange hanging back in high-placed cover with a sniper rifle and dominating an entire map.
Or watch @shane freak out and kill half your squad and @greenius rise high in the ranks, butchering everything with his shotgun, only to get ganked by a hidden Chrysalid.
…
Clearly an impostor.
*adds note to file*
This is such a cool idea. BOLT, run ahead. WASHER, you’re on wet work. HAMMER, nail them!
#questforpage6#EVERYpageispage6 #IFYOUBELIEVE
SCREWDRIVER, you’re… well, you can guess.
The issue happens when Nail gets screwed or Screw gets nailed.
Given I’ve just started I’ve only got 2 soldiers promoted and I name my assault Jackhammer and my support pacemaker xD I’m having trouble thinking of one for my sniper classes =[
NAILGUN, you’re up.
CRANE could also work.
Hmm yes NAILGUN is a solid name for my pistol snipers. I was saving CRANE for my support class once they learn to fly =P SCREWDRIVER sounds snipery too.
Obviously JACKHAMMER rolls into battle with a fedora and a shotgun =p WRENCH sounds like another solid support name, NUTS and BOLTS can my two heavy’s!
fallopian tube?
Vas Deferens
I don’t know what that means but it sounds smart and stuff.
Spoodge tubes.
Bit that gets severed/pegged shut when you have a vasectomy.
As @freezespreston says, spooge tubes.
SPIRIT LEVEL
MICROSCOPE
I’d suggest politician names (because tools) but then you’d probably be too tempted to run them into enemy fire deliberately.
Guys guys guys! Reading above posts by @35 got me thinking so it’s BIG QUESTION TIME! Peeps when you type do you use Shift or Caps Lock? I’m a shift man myself but it wasn’t too long ago I used to Caps lock for every capital letter =O
I honestly can’t understand people who use Caps Lock when typing. I just cannot get my fingers to even comprehend how that would work. The Shift keys are placed for that express purpose, and if you’re a touch typist….
I dunno. I’ve been taught to type “properly” since I was in year 2 or 3, so I can’t remember anything else. I guess if that’s what you’re used to, all power to you.
Edit for clarity: I’m talking about for single letter capitalisation. Anything longer than a few words I can understand.
If you are typing A FULL SENTENCE touch typing the extra effort to hit caps once to a start greatly saves time of having to switch between the 2 shift keys. That said I almost always use shift.
We have people at work who use caps to start a sentence or the first letter of a name. I can’t comprehend how they still do that
Full sentence I take on a case by case (pun intended) basis, but I tend to use shift. Muscle memory I often find myself typing lowercase if I’ve hit the Caps key because I’m so used to holding shift. But yeah, I know people who use Caps for sentence case, or typing proper names and it just boggles my mind.
Shift. I only use caps lock when I’m writing paragraphs of caps, and even then I usually fuck up and try to use shift partway through.
Yeah, shift is just muscle memory for me. I imagine having to press caps every time would be so damn time consuming. D:
Shift. Mainly because my left pinkie only really gets used for the left Shift, Ctrl and Super (aka “Win key”), so it’s usually hovering over that general area anyway. Also because Caps Lock is generally much slower.
I use caps in certain work situations where I’ve been specifically asked to caps every (work order codes n shit).
Otherwise I’ll ridiculously use shift for an entire sentence before remembering caps lock is a thing.
Watching people use caps lock when entering a password is hilarious and painful.
I’ve taken the Caps Lock key off of my keyboard for my desktop and disabled it on my laptop.
OH MY GLOB WHAT THE LUMP IS GOING ON HERE
Is Adventure Time still cool? What the hell are the youth into these days?
Hannah Montana?
Leopard skin pants? Leotards?
Drugs.
Gay marrying each other, according to those wacky religious folk.
$320 later I now own a pair of Astro A40.
More consistently reviewed and higher average plus the Mixamp is supposed to be pretty amazing while eliminating the need for a decent sound card to actually utilise the things.
Doesn’t mean I’m not stressing about the decision. First world problems indeed…
YOU’VE MADE A TERRIBLE MISTAKE!
…
Maybe. I dunno. I use my iPhone headphones. 😛
EARPODS ARE COOL OK!?
$10 Sony earphones over hear (get it?)
I bought an expensive (for me) pair once & they broke too soon (I carry them all week) & it put me off spending so much for sound quality I never actually take the time to appreciate.
Yeah, I always get the cheapest earbuds I can find because they only tend to last me a month at the most before I step on them or they stop working right. Used to be great when you’d go into officeworks and they’d be clearing out cheapo earbuds in one of those bins for like $5 each. I’d load up on them. They haven’t done that in a while though.
Modular cables FTW
My UE Triple Fi 10’s have lasted me 4 years now and I’ve only had to replace the cord once 😛
It is like 40 Sony earphones though so… pros and cons.
Reading guides on Dex builds in Demons Souls because I’m to impatient to stick with one Damn From game.
I have absolutely fallen in love with the flute armour protag wears. I dunno how or why.
Little incompatible with Dex builds though unless you go nuts with endurance.
I know, kept me alive in the early game.
I had no idea they’d armour me up so heavy I was slow.
fun times!
I’ve gotta get strength up a bit just to equip Hugh end weapons though apparently. 20 points I think
I think it’ll be fun to start as a str build & transition into dex, I could be making it harder on myself, but I’m having fun regardless.
That’s all that matters. Min maxing is fun after you’ve beaten it but.
I jumped straight into Storm level to grab that falchion, actually made it up there & another Skeletor jumped out & shanked me.
Was pretty awesome/ embarrassing
I BELIEVE!!
#arewethereyet?
Edit: *cries*
count gud, scrub.
What do you call an ugly dinosaur?
An eyesaur.
JURASSIC WORLD
#dadjokepagesix #hi@strange #hi@pupp3tmast3r*weeps with joy*
A postman left me a note to say my package was too large. My wife disagrees.
I bought my wife some shoes on a recent holiday to China. I looked at the label and it said “Made around the corner”.
What do you call a Hippie’s Wife?
MississippiWhat do you say to impatient jockeys?
Hold your horses.There are 400 billion birds in the world, 250,000 planes, but only one Superman.
So, in answer to your question … It’s probably a bird.
I lost my watch at a party. Saw a guy stepping on it whilst hassling a girl. I walked up to the guy and punched him in the nose.
No-one does that to a girl, especially on my watch.
I said to my mate, “My wife asking me if I’m an Alice in Wonderland character, and it’s getting very annoying!”
He said, “Are you mad at her?”
I said, “Don’t you start!”
“Whisky”, “Vodka”, “Tequila”
I’m calling the shots.
I asked my friend where his teacher grew up. He said “Alaska”
I said “Don’t bother. I’ll ask her myself”
What did the bowl study for at University?
A Spatula of Arts!Working at a university this one is close to my heart <3
*wipes off tears in relief*
Sometimes I use big words I don’t fully understand in an effort to make myself seem more photosynthesis.
This one was fantastic. I love your work.
I often masturbate long words into sentences for the same reason!
Terrible. All of them.
Good work.
Made some great forward progress in Kantai Collection last night, first time I actually achieved anything in a while.
Finally got around to clearing World 5-2. Actually didn’t take many attempts, but it was low on my list of things to do.
Additionally, during one of my monthly runs through 2-5 to grab a medal to turn into blueprints for some of the upgrades (I can never get enough blueprints… 🙁 ), the stars aligned and I finally got a drop I’d been hunting for for at least a year. Taigei, the
onlycutest submarine tender in the fleet. She’d been my White Whale (ironic joke because her name is ‘great whale’) for ages, to the point that I had given up ever seeing her drop and assumed she was a myth.Downside is that I need another two. She has two forms, remodeling into light carrier Ryuuhou and then getting an upgraded light carrier form as well, and all three have unique art, So I need three. Dammit. 🙁
Also won’t have time to work her up to carrier for a while, busy getting Maya to Kai-2 (currently at 52, needs to be 75) and Fusou to her awesome ‘what-if’ aviation battleship form (currently at 69, needs 80). Plan after that was to work on turning Jintsuu into a ninja (current: 52, requires 65) and then look toward probably a destroyer or two. In the mean time, I sent Taigei out with my lowbie spare subs on an expedition. There’s a quest that requires you to do expedition 39 (requires Taigei specifically, not Ryuuhou) which rewards top-end sub-only torpedoes.
Tomorrow’s fortnightly update is adding a Kai-2 for Kako, but I honestly don’t care much. Like Furutaka, I’ve never bothered much with Kako as there are better cruisers to focus on. Rumor has it that upcoming there’s at least one carrier getting an upgrade – hints about the Philippine Sea suggest that Shoukaku and Zuikaku might finally be made viable carriers again. After the upgrades they made to Hiryuu and Soryuu, the Crane sisters ended up dropping right to the bottom of the pile which makes no sense considering how fucking difficult they are to get and when historically they were designed as improvements over the Dragons. Anyway, previously in PVP I’d been running Akagi and Kaga, but with Akagi getting to level 80, I swapped her out for Shoukaku. Want to get both Shoukaku and Zuikaku to at least 75, lessen the grind. But Kaga as the best carrier in the game needs to get to 80 before Zuikaku can come in.
Annoyingly before this all came out I had been intending to work on the Unryuus. Unryuu herself has the least interesting design of the three, but has some quests you can use to get 601st squadron aircraft which are top-tier and otherwise unobtainable. I was planning to get her to 50, do the quests, then work on the vastly, vastly superior Katsuragi and Amagi.
Map progress wise, 5-3, up next, is an all night battle map which requires you to take a pair of destroyers to get to the boss. Issue is that that means no carriers (carriers are sitting ducks at night) but also means that I need strong anti-air. I can use the destroyers in Anti-Air cut-in mode but the issue there is that I only have a couple of high-end reliable destroyers that have good Anti-air stats. Shigure is an all-around champ, but Akizuki maxes out AA to the detriment of everything else so she’s bad at night. The other good options for destroyers – Fubuki, Murakumo, Hatsushimo – I don’t have at high levels yet. So I’m actually thinking of waiting until I have Maya at Kai-2 for this map, since she becomes AA-specialized. That would allow me to take Yuudachi as the second destroyer. Probably would match Maya with Choukai, and then run either two more cruisers (Haguro and Myoukou most likely) or a pair of battleships.
Also in the back of my mind is the fact there’s likely another event coming in 6-8 weeks, and the reward for clearing the last event was Akitsushima, a cute little flying boat tender that I can’t actually see much value in but you just know will be required for some odd branching rules. Also wonder what the big draw will be for the next event. Last one’s big rewards were Katsuragi (last of the completed Unryuu carriers) as well as Italian battleships Littorio/Italia and Roma. There’s still Vittorio Veneto and Impero among the Regia Marina ships, and the elephant in the room is that they still haven’t added Shinano into the game, but beyond that really the only stuff that’s available is either more German ships (Tirpitz?) or for them to continue to flesh out the ridiculous number of IJN Destroyers (rest of the Akizuki class, all of the Matsu class, plus many others eg the missing Mutsukis) or get into crap like escort carriers. Or they finally break the unspoken rule and add allied ships.
@pupp3ymast3r @transientmind
Your bookmarks are foiled. I just need to put a layer of clear gloss over the top to seal it.
if you could both email me so we can sort out details (sorry puppet, I know you’ve already emailed me, but I have to search for it, so this may be easier)
scree[at]y7mail[dot]com
I shouldn’t have changed it
Puppy Master!
Great job or greatest job?
I didn’t even notice. I’m the worst
@pupp3tmast3r
Ill shoot you an e-mail later today scree!
Wait, the power rangers are pirates now? What have the world gotten to? :'(
Kaizuko Sentai Gokaiger came out three or four years ago and it was amazing. The short version is that there was a huge war involving all of the past sentai. They gave up their powers as some sort of ultimate attack and now a group of pirates are trying to collect the galaxy’s greatest treasure, which involves finding all of the morph key thingies (which look like little action figures).
Most episodes are themed around proving themselves to past sentai so that they can earn those keys. If the past sentai they’re trying to impress was goofy as fuck, then the episode is also goofy as fuck.
Oh and the sixth ranger is a sentai fanboy.
I’m not particularly obsessed with power rangers and sentai, but there’s some good camp fun to be had. Gokaiger takes that good camp fun and turns it to eleven. I’ve got no idea if they do the same with Super Megaforce. It doesn’t really matter. Go watch Gokaiger instead.
Edit:
Goofy as fuck.
Fell over the other day and my head hit the table.
That explains the sharp pain in my crotch.
Saw an interesting infographic for No Mans sky earlier on imgur, thought some of you might like to see isome stats around it:
http://m.imgur.com/gallery/1IaXR
ooooh page six!
Earlier this morning at the deli, a man assaulted me with a bottle of milk, a roll of cheese and tipped a tub of yoghurt all over me.
How dairy!Logitech G29… it exists… and I am glad of that… now when can I get one, and how many kidneys do I have to sell?
If this works on say Xbox One, Pc, Ps4 I would highly consider the buy, if it works on those plus ps3 and xbox 360 I would buy day one.
There are two models:
The Logitech G29 for PS4/PS3, and Logitech G920 for Xbox One and PC.
Having gone to bed much too late yesterday because I couldn’t pry myself away from Demons Souls, I find myself too tired to continue on tonight.
Got that crescent falchion though 😀
Well there goes Christopher Lee.
Sad news 🙁
🙁
My dad absolutely loved the Hammer Horror films so I grew up with a lot of Lee’s early stuff. The kind of guy you point to and say ‘that’s what people should be like’. So so sad
Set my computer to wake for 3am tomorrow morning…
Bring it on, Steam!
Ron Moody who played Fagin in Oliver! has also died 🙁 I’m not one for musicals but Oliver! is absolutely amazing and a lot of that was down to Moody being spot on character
Woo, Oculus event tonight!
I wasn’t specifically planning on staying up for it, but judging by sleep patterns I’ll be around when it kicks off anyway. So may as well 😛
I just finished Witcher 3.
I’m somewhat emotionally traumatized by the fact that it has ended, having to let go.
That was a very… very good game.
…
*taps fingers on desk*
…
…Fuck it.
*opens Witcher 3*
*new game*
Which ending did you get?
I ended up with Ciri becoming an honorary Witcher, Geralt ran away with Triss and they all lived happily ever after. Looking it up, I only missed one option to get what is generally considered the “good” ending, and that would have required talking to Emhyr, so fuck that.For ending, I got:
Romanced Triss, Ciri survived, and went to go pursue her Nilfgaardian destiny.More detailed, spoilery bits on that…
Choosing Triss was a mistake, she gets far less screentime with Geralt, it’s obvious that Yenn is the One True Pairing. I’m going to play again going that way. But after having seen the Ciri-as-Witcher ending, I’m inclined to agree that Ciri as Emhyr’s heir is probably the better ending. Very, very, very bittersweet ending, but probably the most appropriate for her. Geralt has to let go. She’s got her own life and she can’t spend it holding adopted daddy’s hand. Damn near every meaningful interaction you have with the girl seems to be reinforcing the important difference between being protective and supportive, between coddling and empowering. I’d had hopes early in the ending sequence with talk about training at Kaer Morhen, learning Witcher craft, all the rest that I had somehow got the Witcher ending. But no… it was a set-up. And the realization set in that goodbyes would be coming soon. Real goodbyes.I’m going to hack the game a bit for the next run-through. Not particularly fussed on seeing all those cut-scenes with mis-matched borrowed clown-suit national trooper garb, I’ll just find a way to grab the Mastercrafted Ursine gear, which is – to my mind – the ‘true’ costume. That and a neatly-trimmed beard and the shaved-sides top-knot. Fashion is very, very important.
For me, what clinched my ending as the right one (for me) was the scene with the travelling group, where you have to steal that dude’s horses. Ciri looked so happy, and she expressed a desire to want to join them. For me, Ciri becoming an honorary Witcher isn’t about her “following her “father”” or whatever, but the closest she’ll have to doing what she wants to do. Maybe in twenty years time she’ll stop Witchering, learn how to juggle. She has a very long life ahead of her (She’s a sorceress of a sort, so could live for hundreds of years).It’s a very fair call. That was a good scene. I think they’ve done well to make it so you prefer whatever option you’ve chosen… See, when you get the one I got, she drops some only slightly confronting truth bombs.
When you ask her if this is something she chose, not something she was influenced into, Ciri says she chose this because she wants to change the world for the better, and she can’t do that as ‘just a witcher’, roaming the countryside slaying monsters for forgotten villages. But she can make real change from the Niflgaardian throne. Reminds me of when she steps in to confront the White Frost and calls Geralt a silly man… what can a mere witcher do? She does bust out the tears and breaks down a bit at the goodbye… asks if he won’t drag her away, force her to go with him to somewhere far away like the Blue Mountains, … like a half-hoped-for outcome she knew wasn’t really in the cards. Fantastic writing, that game. Really human.As for ‘a witcher having time to learn to juggle’, same applies to being Empress. If anything, she should get that out of the way first, because that job has a time limit on it. Emhyr is mortal, and whoever succeeds him won’t be as favourably inclined to just hand over the throne when she feels like she’s ready to step into her birthright… but running off an joining the circus? You can do at anytime in hundreds of years. 🙂 She could go be a witcher after being an Empress, too, probably.
Steam sales are go, but there are problems with adding games to your cart due to the heavy load of traffic at the moment.
That was fun.
Interesting parts:
-The slider on the underside of the Rift is in fact for mechanical IPD adjustment
-Facial interface on the inside will be replaceable, good to know for when it gets too grubby
-Every Rift will be bundled with an Xbone controller and wireless adapter
-A few interesting-looking games in the works, the former Darksiders guys one Chronos looks cool. ALSO HIGH VOLTAGE ARE BACK! Loved their work on the Wii.
-They’re putting up $10mil to fund indie development
-VR controller revealed, codenamed “half moon”. Most interesting part is that it seems to have contactless finger recognition, so you can wave to someone or point or give a thumbs-up. Seems pretty cool. And together they look like a pair of angry eyes.
I’m hyped. Even if it does sound like STEM has to be pretty much dead in the water now 😛
It does look pretty cool!
“An item on your steam wish-list is on sale”
*opens email*
“ALL OF THEM”
…
-_-
Well played steam, well played.
*hides under blanket until sale is over*
There are games on my wishlist that aren’t on sale… That means I’m doing it wrong, right?
It’s the whole “you want what you can’t have” reverse psychology BS 😛
Stream is trying to tell you that “these games are soooooooo goooooood that there’s no possible way they can be put on special so you should probably buy them” 😛
Woah.
You mean they aren’t on sale… yet.
That’s what I’m hoping… 😉
Anybody think Life Is Strange will go on sale?
It has begun.
http://store.steampowered.com/
May God have mercy on us all!
*burns wallet*
YEAH! What’re you going to do about that steam? Huh?
“PayPal details”
… FUCK!
Question.
What’s the point of making a VR game then making it 3rd person or a 2D platformer? What exactly does VR bring to the table on that case?
It depends! If you can reach out and slap the character, or pick them up and chuck them to a new platform, that might be kind of fun 😛
Not sure that fits with gritty third person cover shooter.
I’m firmly in the camp that believes every game needs, and would benefit from, a dedicated slap button.
Or a hug button! Half the violent stand-offs could be solved with hugs!
Never change, @dc
*hugs*
*puts away punching fists*
*hugs back*
Get a room!
@powalen Pssst. I saw Jurassic World last night and loved it. That is all.
Oh man, if they made a VR Life Is Strange and allowed me to physically hit the characters (like, set up a punching bag with sensors in it) I’d never play anything else.
I felt good just reading that!
You’ve just made me realise why I’m not that interested in VR.
First person.
Yay I am not the first person to question this. Yeahhhh for me a VR headset needs to have first person games for the immersion!
While I haven’t gotten around to trying and third-person demos myself, apparently it works quite well. One of the major benefits of it though is it alleviates a lot of the problems of trying to do it in first-person, namely that your viewpoint can move much slower than all the quick running, jumping and tumbling your character is going through, which can cause motion sickness.
I’ve heard it likened to being a kid again, playing with action figures in front of you. Except like a million times better.
Come on Green Man Gaming, give me my key for Lego Jurassic World dammit!
Another day, another dollar, 8 hrs of dreaming of free time.
How is everyone in this glorious Friday?
Yeah, day off, so it’s pretty good.
#rubbingitin
GET YOUR SPLOOGE OFFA ME, YOU DAMN DURTY APE
*GASP* HE CAN TALK!
I CAN SIIIIIIIIING
*Dr Zaius Dr Zaius*
I love legitimate the-a-tre.
You’ve finally made a monkey out of me.
I LOVE YOU DR. ZAIUS!
Payday 2 Crimewave Edition lets me play as John Wick. Best.
Sweet!
TALK AMONGST YOURSELVES ON KOTAKU AUSTRALIA
GET YOUR SPLOOGE OFFA ME, YOU DAMN DURTY APE
Im famoose
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*unfurls intervention sign*
All the best, bud. Hope it goes well for you friends sake. 🙁
Step 1. Place dog shit in bag.
Step 2. Place bag on douchebag’s porch.
Step 3. Light it on fire.
Step 4. Ring the doorbell.
You forgot step 5: hide behind bush and snigger.
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PLOT TWIST! You sounded emotionally invested in your friend and I didn’t want to say anything cos I figured it was like a crush or something =P
If it’s your mrs all the more reason not to assume control 35, that will irreparable long term damage to the trust between the two of you. When your in a relationship women vent to you so you can listen and provide support; not for you to assume control and deal with their situation for them. Given she’s your gf you should definitely have a heart to heart discussion on how you feel her flatmate is treating her and how you feel it’s emotionally unhealthy for her and eventually for yourself as well given you want to be with her. What makes this tricky is the fact its her flatmate meaning she can never really get away from that =\ She’s going to have to stand her ground without feeling guilt-tripped.
On a separate note triggered by an itch at the back of my skull have the two of you just recently started dating? And if so has the flatmates manipulative behaviour become more territorial as your relationship has blossomed?
1. Find her desk.
2. Wait until she’s sitting at it.
3. Poo in the top drawer, maintaining constant eye contact whole flipping the bird.
4. Hold the bird and moonwalk out of room.
More seriously, it’s tough. Depending on the relationship these two have and level of emotional dependence confronting her may end up with you friends with neither any more. Usually better to positively reinforce the other girl whenever she makes a decision for herself and keep hammering the point home that they are their own people with own lives outside pleasing the one person all the time. Can take a while but coming to her own realisation will be better than trying to force anything.
Invite her out for some ice cream. Maybe gelato. In a cup preferably.
Sit down, gelato on table, tell her she’s being a bitch.
If you don’t like her response, punch her in the face and take her gelato.
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It’s a win win situation no matter the outcome!
I lost a good friend partly because I was upfront to both him & his gf for shagging other guys.
Tread carefully
Ah the good ol your partners screwing other people conversation; never ends well. A group of us went to a girl we were friends with to try and tell her that her bf was cheating on her big time and she went into complete denial and cut us out of her life. 6 months later we all got calls because she found out about it the hard way.
Classy, this guy got drunk one night & spent the night slagging me & my wife to be off outside @gutsoup ‘s house.
Wow; yeah that’s special.
First talk to the person who is upset. Tell her that it’s unhealthy and that she hasn’t done anything wrong. The other friend is using her, and that’s not what real friends do. If your friend doesn’t believe you, ask her how she would react if it was her asking something and her friend refused. Most normal people would just let it slide.
As for the other person, the manipulator, generally it’s easier to turn it on it’s head when she’s doing the manipulating. Call her out on it. When she says how can you be a friend if you won’t do this, she should say, (or you) a reall friend wouldn’t say something like that. Friends don’t try to emotionally blackmail others.
Thanks Scree 🙂
Work on bringing your girlfriends self esteem up. It would be better if she realises that it’s an unhealthy relationship. These sorts of people are called poisonous for a reason. If your girlfriend defends her, ask her if she would use that sort of statement against you? Ask if she would do it to any of her friends. The sooner she realises and tries to fix it, or break it off, the better.
I don’t talk to my family because they are sort of like this. They can use emotional blackmail and such and found it was easier to cut them off. People who don’t think they have a problem, won’t change. No matter how much you tell them. Kind of like the human in Fallout new vegas that’s hanging out with the ghouls. It’s staring him in the face but he refuses to believe it, so it isn’t a problem.I honestly don’t think you can… or should. Someone consciously riding the gravy train won’t let go of it easily, and if she actually believes her own bullshit and has a victim mentality (which the odds are very good on), confronting her about it will only give you a mortal enemy. A mortal enemy with a vested interest in poisoning your friend against you.
‘A leopard can’t change its spots’ holds true for most ‘users’. It’d take a pretty major catalyst from within to make someone realize they’ve been an ass and WANT to begin the incredibly difficult process of changing their behaviours and beliefs, and that sure as hell won’t come from some ‘random’ friend-of-a-friend criticizing them.
You feel like you ‘need to do this’, knowing it won’t work… so why? For the principle of it, to say that at least you didn’t stand by and do nothing? Who are you serving, if it doesn’t work and makes her worse by adding the bonus fun of your friend having to now deal with two friends who hate each other and are dragging her into it?
All I can think of is the long treatment… the harder treatment because it doesn’t feel like real action or yield any immediate results: Be a better friend, and if it hurts her dealing with this person, repeat: “REAL friends have a net positive effect on your life.” Some people enhance, some people drain, and eventually, hopefully, she’ll wise up and make the decision for herself. It won’t be easy for your friend… it’ll be fucking hard. But her making the decision herself is the only way it’ll ever stick.
We call the first paragraph the Hockey Principle.
I’m not entirely certain approaching the best friend is going to do much more good than allowing you to vent your own opinion. The amount of damage it is likely to do to your friend’s relationship with her along with your own relationship with your friend will depend entirely on the group dynamic all three of you share but there is definitely going to be damage on all three relationship levels.
As I see it this is your friend’s battle to fight and coming up with rationalizations to fight it for her undermines her own freedom. That is to say at the end of the day it’s her decision as to whether she wishes to continue the relationship with her best friend or not and anything you might say however good natured that could jeopardize that relationship takes that freedom of choice away from her. The best case scenario is all 3 of you are close friends in which case the fallout is likely to be minimal and you might be able to repair your bridges; however given your distaste for the best friend within the post I don’t see this as being likely meaning going ahead with your plan is likely to be akin to a kamikaze attack.
People who are manipulative are rarely sub-consciously so; I for one realized when I was 8/9 years old how I could be manipulative and consciously pulled back that kind of behaviour as I got older. This means if you confront this best friend and they’re aware even slightly of how they’re throwing their manipulations out there; they aren’t likely to listen to you unless once again you have an established rapport/relationship to draw upon.
As I see it the best course of action and probably considerably longer is to wean your friend of this social group; get her to hang out with you or your group of friends more often so her social dependance on this bestie fades. Once it fades the guilt will also lose its effect/intensity as social protocal dictates guilt only works on people you are have close proximity to. I wouldn’t move forward with this course of action however until have a proper sit-down with your friend and heaving a heart to heart as to how see her being treated by her other so-called friends and allow her to make the decision to move away from them with your help.
Helping others has a very fine line between aiding them and allowing them to grow strong enough to help themselves and assuming complete control and trying to use your strength to help them instead (which only weakens them further in the long run).
Oh , dear.
Looks like the Steam servers have crashed.
🙁
EDIT: And they’re back… for now…
Booked my ticket for Jurassic World at the IMAX tomorrow afternoon.
I’ve got this weird feeling of anti-hype. Ever since the first trailer came out I haven’t been able to get excited for it D: Just worried it won’t live up to how much I love the original.
I don’t think I’ve ever been nervous to see a movie before 😛
I think I was over-hyped and as a result didn’t enjoy it as much as I probably should have.
Might go and watch it again tonight. Maybe it’ll be better the second time.
It won’t live up to the original. No sequel ever will be able to replicate the conditions (your age, the time, the fact nothing had really been done like that on that scale before) to make that magic happen.
From all accounts it’s a great movie but don’t hold it up against the original. Enjoy it for what it is, a banging Dino flick.
That’s the thing! I feel like the series is more than a banging Dino flick 😛
I’m sure I’ll like it. I’m remarkably easy to please. I mean, I like all three JP movies, so…
It’s my second favourite Jurassic Park movie and the fears I had from the trailer were unfounded. I think you’ll be right.
As long as you don’t say your favourite JP movie is the last 20 minutes of Lost World, cool. 😛
The end of The Lost World is the worst in an otherwise great movie. 😛
Based on the trailer, I feel like it’s going to feel like your basic Marvel movie. It’ll be alright, but won’t be magical like the original was.
I was going to say that but didn’t want to offend any Marvel fans by saying “I hope they don’t Avenger-fy it” 😛
I’m sure it’ll be great.
What you have a problem with the greatest movie of all time from the greatest director of all time I’LL CUT YOU– er… ahem.
That is to say… I quite like the Marvel movies and Pow’s verbification of the best movie of all time shouldn’t be taken seriously because Pow obviously doesn’t know what the fuck he’s talking about because oh my god ‘Avenger-fy’ should be a verb for MAKE TOTALLY AWESOME COMEHEREANDI’LL *cough* Ahem! Oh my. Pardon me. I don’t quite know what came over me. I think I need to sit down a spell.
*is already sitting*
You alright there champ? Seem a little worked up…
A place attached to the building just started serving coffee and when one of the coworkers jokingly said, “I’ll just have a whole bucket of coffee, thanks,” the manager brought out a mug that is basically a square bowl, and it was full of coffee and so now they’re selling ‘a whole bucket of coffee’ and I thought I would try one and now I’m afraid if I stop talking I’ll die. Isn’t Mick cool? I thought he’d be all like, “I’m a rock star. Aren’t I great?” But he’s just like you or me, or Jesus over there.
I looked up Avenger-fy in a thesaurus and it shows me Kardashian-fy.
Pretty, popular, vapid and shallow.
Marvel movies are okay. Solid but not amazing. Very by the numbers,know exactly what you’re getting. I prefer DC films. Way more inconsistent, the worst of DC is THE WORST but their best is far better than anything Marvel has produced.Why do you say things you know will hurt me? 🙁
Hey now, by being serious and well-reasoned you’re not playing the game right! That said… I’m not sure which good DC films there are outside of Nolan’s Batman. I mean, I guess there’s the Dark Horse side of things, with Red, Watchmen, The Losers… but do they really count?Dark Horse and DC have no link. It’s Vertigo that is a subsidiary of DC (and I’m pretty sure Watchmen at least is a Vertigo property).Oh snap, I forgot I left that in there and didn’t edit before posting. I did actually look it up and it was Vertigo for Watchmen, and a couple different outfits for the others.
What’s the best DC, The Dark Knight? Batman is alright and all but Heath Ledger’s stellar Joker performance was what made it truly amazing. Otherwise I reckon Winter Soldier could give it a good run for it’s money.
It does have a heart and Jurassic Park magic, though. Not as good as first, but a worthy sequel and if Pow enjoyed the third movie I think it’s a no brainer he’ll dig this one.
I think a little bit of anti-hype will probably serve you well, just don’t go in expecting to hate it and you won’t. 🙂
Also Michael Giacchino nails the OST. If you didn’t know any better you’d think it was John Williams.
So the Steam Summer metagame is…basically Clicker Heroes.
I’m not kidding, go check it out.
I just get an error message every time I try to join a game …
Every time I click “play now” it comes up with the message “There was a problem trying to join a game. Please try again later.”
Same, tried to join a friends game and I died in about 5 seconds flat. So much fun. =/
Yeah, I did that too. It’s cause you ended up in a game too high for your level. Let it run for a while and then buy some armour. You health goes up stupidly quick.
Do you not die if you are away?
EDIT: Nope, still died. Guess I get money even when dead?
You die while away but you auto respawn. You spawn much faster if you’re around to click a button, though.
Still won’t even let me play it.
*twitches*
For about three weeks every time I’d log into PSN it would say you were playing Black Flag and every time I logged into Steam it said you were playing Clicker Heroes. It concerned me greatly. It could be like 4 in the morning and there you’d be! D:
Oh, that’s just me being an environmental terrorist by leaving all my games machines online and running so that when I wander past and have ten minutes to kill I can just turn the screen on, unpause, and continue.
MONSTER.
Got a tune from an 8 bit game stuck in my head and I can’t for the life of me think what game it’s from. So frustrating.
Is it Mario?
Nope.
I’m out of ideas.
Bubsy.
Oh FUCK you.
Bubsy wasn’t 8 bit.
It wasn’t, but that wasn’t the point of the comment. I feel like I might have hit my mark with @redartifice
I feel like something just flew overhead somewhere but it was too high to make out what it was…
Awful earworm music.
Nope. Bubsy was 16 bit (SNES), wasn’t it?
Sega’s The Ninja.
Nope. Don’t even know how that goes, because I never played it.
Oh, god.
That game was Dark Souls before Dark Souls was even a thing. 🙁
Beating it was the highlight of my 6 year old life.
Finally figured out what it was. It was this.
https://youtu.be/WxeyY95HEzs?t=98
I need to get back to that game.
Not this?
https://youtu.be/1ts0BIEKFCo
Still the most amazing rendition of Bubble bobble ever!
Hahahaha I was hoping that would be the video I’d see once I’d read what you said.
Anyone played Metro / Metro Malibu Stacy version? Kinda tempted to pick up the Malibu Stacy version seeing as it’s only $10
I don’t know what this is.
Is this a sex thing?
It’s like a sex thing, but it’s got a new hat.
The Malibu Stacy version is dramatically superior and turns a ‘niche but cool’ game into a straight-up cool game.
Metro 2033/Last Light are great. Really enjoyed both. Post apocalyptic Russia is just like, the coolest setting ever. I’ll get to Pripyat one day. *sighs*
Witcher 3 Novigrad things:
Finally bothered to start progressing the main story and met up with Triss. Something tells me when I hit a higher level I’m going to wander into Novigrad and just start cutting everyone with a weapon into two or more pieces. Also, now that I’ve met with Triss, I need to start deciding the (obviously upcoming) decision about who I want Geralt to be with in the pants department. Triss has always come across as a better person but Yen and Geralt are kinda the driving force behind so much of the series.The pants department. That made me laugh. You’re alright, buddy. You’re alright.Not sure if you want to know or not but regarding options with choosing between the two (I’m not much further, just got to Skellige)
You don’t have a choice. You do with Triss but around Yen, Geralt turns into a lovesick teenager and your two dialogue options is simpering obsession or neckbeard creep.Well, shit.
If that’s the case and I can’t choose only Triss I feel mildly ripped off…mostly because I’ll be playing this game through a second time and wanted to choose one then the other. I guess I’ll have to choose Yen in one and be a slutty Witcher in the other.Spoilers to counter Freeze’s spoilers –
You can choose one but you need to progress Skellige’s questline first. So you can choose Triss if you want; just make sure you don’t fool around with Yen when given the choice.bear in mind with Yen there’s a magical wish at play giving Geralt very little option until the wish is broken.Legit Romance spoiler:
Unlike every other game in the series, this time around if you try to choose both, you’ll end up with neither.I want to just choose Triss. She’s a much more interesting character and I like her much more. But the game won’t let me stop fawning over Yen. I just want to stay loyal to Triss damn it. And Keira. And the girls at Crippled Kate’s.My opinion also.
Yennefer is a bitch.
Keira:
She’s manipulative and selfish. Nice on the surface, but she’s not a good person.I can understand where the Yen-hate comes from I guess, but I actually sympathize with that pairing a lot.
By the time of completion, when you tally up what actions Yen has actually taken, it’s not really bad at all. There’s maybe only two or three morally-dubious (one outright appalling) actions taken. And the questionable one she did take (THE TREE!) was out of desperation to find her adopted daughter. Yen’s day-to-day ‘crime’ that seems to put folks offside is not deigning to keep people informed about things she doesn’t think they need to know, and the willingness to do whatever it takes to protect her surrogate ‘daughter’. She puts a brave face on it, but she doesn’t actually want that life of dog-eat-dog political survival and she makes real, consequential changes to try to get away from it.As for how she and Geralt interact… I think it’s actually a lot more indicative of how many couples behave than the ‘on your best behaviour’ propriety exhibited by Triss. Some of it is particularly familiar to me… Yen’s intellectual superiority and likely Cassandra complex leaves her with a (justified) distrust for anyone’s ability to make wise decisions for themselves. Meaning that in order to engineer the result she wants for the people she cares about, she consciously decides to ensure they don’t know about the parts they’d object to if it means they end up not doing what she wants them to do… for their own good. It’s a frustrating character trait in real life, but it’s apparently well-intentioned, and can be managed with a firm hand and communication. Something Geralt actually gets the opportunity to do.
I don’t actually see anything particularly hurtful or spiteful in their barbs and banter, either. That’s just the way of people who know each other really well and even come to rely on your partner calling you on your bullshit. This isn’t the honeymoon for them, it’s the Relationship. And if you were banging Triss in 1 & 2, that relationship is a lot like that of an ex-wife who still has to deal with the cheating hound she still cares for but hasn’t forgiven, when dealing with their kid. You can simper with Yen if you want, but it doesn’t necessarily lead to respect. Happily much of the flattery Geralt pulls off with a low-key, dry humour that teases that he could always be playing for irony, or poorly using code to convey his laser-guided guided focus on the activity that occupies the attention of both of his brains at this very moment. And I totally relate to that. Depending on her mood it can both irritate and satisfy.
I guess I see a lot of uncanny parallels to real life, real relationships. Good, but difficult ones.
No, my problem is Yen is uninteresting and boring. She’s all back story and mystery without personality. What small traits she has feels forced and tacked on. Which is a shame because pretty much every other character is great. She feels like something out of a late 90’s Forgotten Realms game.
My issue with her is that there feels like there’s absolutely no chemistry between the two of them. She treats him with utter indifference most of the time. I don’t understand why he even cares at all, let alone follows her around like a puppy. There’s just… nothing there. Not much to Yen as a character either. I feel like under different circumstances these two people wouldn’t even stop to give each other the time of day. No spark of friendship or anything. Their relationship seems to be borne out of expedience.
That’s the opposite to how i felt the interactions with Triss play out. But maybe it’s because she had two games previously to establish a strong character.
These spam emails are getting weird…
Breaking: The X-Files new season story lines spoiled.
Breaking: Record number of lotto winners after new X-Files season premieres!
Just had a meeting that made me come back to my desk and down an entire block of chocolate to get back to even.
#FeelingFine
Hope all is well, pal.
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-PxVfWNSfr9A/U_gVEVgVPWI/AAAAAAAArXQ/JmV_b161PRo/s1600/tumblr_lvn7pyCASI1r212eho1_500.png
A few screenshots from The Witcher 3 that might put a smile on your face:
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=459211459
The reply:
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=459211634
Everything I see makes me want to try this game… but none more so than these.
*provides security blankey and hot beverage of choice*
Remember – it’s Friday. All is well. At least until Monday anyway.
You Ok man?
Yeah, I ate chocolate. I’m back to even! Thanks.
Hope everything’s alright man.
Yep, I ate chocolate. I’m back to even! Thanks.
Orange is the New Black s3 is on Netflix RIGHT NOW.
Know what I’m doing tonight!
https://youtu.be/Mny0zkq_goM?t=2s
Should get around to watching that
Edit: And by that I mean S1 Ep1
Well that’s your next week sorted out then.
I watched the trailer for S3 – haven’t watched any OITNB so far. Lori Petty! *adds to list*
*flails*
I only had to wait two days after finishing season 2 and I will marathon this shizz like a mofo. The wait til season 4 will be interminable!
http://www.siliconera.com/2015/06/11/darksiders-will-receive-a-new-large-scale-project-says-new-owner/ New Darksiders?!
God I hope so. Such a cool world
Darkthiderth 3: Pethtilanth
Apparently good old Pestilence didn’t even have a horse, the poor bastard was just around. Possibly just a 4 Horseman groupie
@jimu: Actually, there is no ‘pestilence’ rider in the four horsemen in revelation. The rider on the white horse that’s associated with disease is Conquest. The disease connection is because he’s described as carrying a bow, which the Greeks associated with Artemis, and greek folklore had it that plagues and diseases were a result of being shot by Artemis’ arrows. The biblical four horsemen are Conquest, War, Famine and Death.
However in the Darksiders universe, the four horsemen are War, Death, Strife and Fury.
The game they were planning for Darksiders 3 apparently had you playing as all four of them and supported co-op or something, but I imagine they’d just make a game centered around Strife or Fury. Strife’s the badass looking one with a pair of pistols. The two pistols you get in the other two games (Mercy and Redemption) are his guns. There’s also a chance they’d center it around Fury, who takes Famine’s place because apparently it was hard for them to think of a way to make gameplay around starving people to death. 😛 She’d probably mesh better with the sort of combat they had in Darksiders II – her signature weapon’s a whip but she also has a set of claws. On the other hand, story-wise Strife would be a more interesting lead since he’s rude and sarcastic.
I guess there’s also a chance they’d go back and center it around Death or War again.
Either way, I don’t care. Give me more Darksiders and I’ll buy it. That franchise (and Vigil as a studio) deserved way better than it got.
I’m mostly in it for the art style. Joe Madureira has the perfect way of drawing and designing things for a story about the apocalypse and it just feels so right.
Yeah. That’s the only thing that gives me pause. Darksiders without Joe Mad is barely anything at all. It’s his visual design which brings it all together. I hope the new studio gets him in at least as a consultant. Won’t be permanent staff though, he has his own studio that was doing something based off his old Battle Chasers comics I think?
Huh. Interesting connection! I really enjoyed the few issues of Battle Chasers I had, but I thought it ended abruptly mid-stream or something, and never really followed up on it. I didn’t pay any attention to who the creator was, I just remember the comic.
Yeah, he just stopped doing comics out of the blue, got into game design & it took a decade before he was seen again.
Battle Chasers is finally getting an ending though
http://www.airshipsyndicate.com/
Vol 10 was cancelled last minute after long delays and never came out. He went into video games artwork just after. That was late 90s and I think he had gotten burned out working on X-Men stuff where it was all grimdark. What he announced a few months ago was that he’d be revisiting Battle Chasers to finish it off and that his studio was going to make a game in the setting.
http://www.polygon.com/2015/2/26/8112963/battle-chasers-game-comic-joe-madureira
He quit xmen to do Battle Chasers though.
At his slow pace, it’d be impossible for him to pencil two comics a month.
And that’s issue 10, not volume.
He did what is traditionally considered 9 months worth of work over 2 or 3 years.
Yeah, but making a shitty title joke about a pseudo-lisp is less fun with any variation of the right names.
Can’t make jokes about Sthrife?
Yeah, but it’th not ath good.
Way to ruin my joke
So Wikipedia claims that Death is the only one named. The others have been named different ly depending on translation & interpretation over the years.
Oh cool, Death rides a zombie horse, what a champ!
I had to try and mutter it under my breath to figure out what it was.
And only just realised now when typing this up that the “Darksiders” part wasn’t actually spelt that way.
Didn’t they say that when they first bought the franchise off THQ?
That said, I’m super keen for a new Darksiders (even though they changed a couple of the horsemen). Always thought it would be cool if they did four games (one for each of the individual horsemen) and then one with them all.
They did, but that was more of an aspirational thing at the time.
This sounds like it’s a real actual thing that’s happening. There’s a studio set up with a lot of ex-Vigil guys to work on it and things. Though sadly I think Joe Mad is one of them.
Think I’ve already spent enough in the Steam summer sale. If there’s anything else I want (that’s got a big enough discount) I’ll just have to buy it on the last day.
By the way, I’ve got 2 copies of Hammerwatch to give away. Who wants one?
So you are done. Then I guess you are not interested in the fact the Sit, you are being hunted is now 90% off
Also did you buy a bunch of gifts again as your purchased games and purchase amounts don’t seem to line up
Nah, all for myself this time, except for the Hammerwatch 4-pack. Not as much moolah this time around.
Welp, got my first Skolas kill last night. Got invited by a friend’s team at the boss room (they’d just lost their third, and needed a sub). Took us a couple of tries to get it right, and I got carried hard – emptied three Black Hammer mags into Skolas, and got five gjallies into him before getting melted by his scorch cannon. Scored two elder cipher bounties when he died… I assume one was a glitched version I should have received on a previous level 34? Dunno. But, I didn’t have any keys on any characters to open the 35 chest, so no emblem, no ship, no shader – don’t particularly mind, as I didn’t feel I really earned it, and as far as consolation prizes go, two exotic bounties and an etheric light is pretty good.
Time to farm some treasure keys, I guess.
WE SHOULD DO A 35 SOMETIME MAYBE IF YOU WANNA YOU CAN SAY NO I’M GOOD WITH REJECTION IT WAS MAINLY JUST A THOUGHT IN THE FIRST PLACE I HOPE YOU ARE WELL!
Why hello liondrive! How’re your boots this fine day??
-___-
. . .
😛 Sure, I’m up for that. If we do a full run, it’ll be a long haul, from what I’ve heard – might pay off to start early. Plus, sounds like the Gjally cheese we used last night may not work from Tuesday – Bungie are scrapping burn modifiers for Skolas entirely, and reducing his health “to compensate.” Any preference on when you want to do this?Also, read up on the cipher, and it turns out getting a double drop is a fairly common glitch – I’ll only get one weapon total. Boo. Totally going for the Bow, tho.After the most stressful and exhausting week at work, (fuck you EOFY) seems I’m able to have a quiet Friday arvo if I bludge all the work I’m supposed to today and deal with the shit on Monday instead! I ACCEPT!
The finest of public service traditions.
So, I’m not sure about these bookmarks. I’m worried that if I print them on demand, that it may cost more, possibly also driving costs up for the consumer, which I don’t want.
If I get them printed in bulk, which is cheaper, i may end up with surplus stock that I can’t shift.
Soryy XD
I’m sorry?
No me!
I don’t understand why you’re apologising
I’m sorry.
Do an initial run that covers what you have definite orders plus more to sell through whatever channels it is you have picked.
Watch how the extra sell – volume/speed/destinations (if you need more lead time for international orders maybe? and then figure out how big next print run needs to be to keep costs reasonably level.
Alternatively… print on demand, charge a lower fixed price, then overcharge on shipping to cover any potential shortfall on your end. Isn’t that what everyone does on eBay anyway?
I had a look online and most places while do 250 bookmarks Minimum. So I am not quite sure what to do about it. It’s actually a massive pain in the bum.
Hate minimum orders.
Few years ago a mate and I had an escalating prank war surrounding Guy Sebastian’s song Like It Like That.
Got to the point where my next turn at the prank was to get him some “I <3 Guy Sebastian” merch. But finding someone who would do a single custom printed shirt for anything less than $100 was very close to impossible.
I have a friend who works at snap printing and I think that she is my best printing option.
EBay started taking a cut of shipping because of all those 1c sales with $39.99 shipping.
Good advice from Sunsoar, I reckon.
The Phoenix Wright games are BRILLIANT. I’m (re)playing through the final case in the third game, and it takes the whole series to a new level of intricacy, surprise, suspense, genius and hilarity.
If you haven’t played them, you HAVE to play them.
This exchange between Edgeworth and Larry Butz (who is on the witness stand) was a huge pick-me-up yesterday and had me laughing.
Edgeworth: So you searched all over for her?Butz: She was flying pretty high, you know.
Butz: I thought maybe she slipped on her landing and got hurt. Hey! It was more than possible!
Butz: Also, when I headed out to the shack the first time, I was snacking on a banana.
Butz: I was pretty sure I threw the peel away somewhere around there, so, you know…
Edgeworth: …
(Can one guy really be this stupid?)
Edgeworth: So, did you find any signs of her so-called “landing”?
Butz: Hmm… I don’t really remember.
Butz: I kept on falling over myself, and kinda lost it for a while there.
Judge: You… fell over yourself?
Butz: Yeah. The snow was deep, and there was even a banana peel out there!
Edit: on reflection, this may not be as funny out of context, but I just love it.
Have to admit, some of the interactions in Dual Destinies have been pretty great. In particular the second case,
That early twist with the different gender. Even I was on the side of everyone else thinking it was absurd but it was really hilarious at how the entire character’s personality changed in an instant.The Phoenix Wright games are great for making you feel smart when you solve a puzzle, similar to good adventure games. The satisfaction of winning even minor victories helps the courtroom battles be intriguing. The sometimes outright ridiculousness just adds charm to the whole thing.
Agreed! And somehow, despite the near wall-to-wall insanity, crazy jokes, weird characters, and kooky crimes, there is legitimate storytelling underpinning the whole thing. It’s a triumph in game design that you can figure out these ridiculously convoluted stories one minor contradiction at a time… but there are moments of breath-catching tension and legit character drama too. (IIRC the final case in Dual Destinies had at least one moment like that.)
Have you seen the movie yet? It’s fantastic.
When I get Netflix, it is the very first thing I will be watching.
You should get Netflix. Plenty of kids shows on there for the fam.
We’re currently working our way through the stuff we want in Stan’s catalogue, and then we’ll jump across.
I feel like laughing…
But it also feels a little inappropriate…
https://youtu.be/ToPRDDPN4xg
All of their faces mid-dive:
http://i.imgur.com/xCwqj1a.jpg
http://gematsu.com/2015/06/first-details-tales-berseria-setting-protagonist I’m liking the sound of the setting for the upcoming Tales game. Also liking the idea of a female lead for once assuming they actually go through with that. Though she does look like if it was a fighting game, she’d be ToX Milla’s C2. 😛 Also the character design and setup kind of gives me hope that maybe we’ll get a Tales protagonist that isn’t the usual naive white knight / wannabe hero type.
Fingers crossed for that last part. Way too many games/anime stories suffer for having a blank self-insertion slate for the audience.
Well that’s not really the issue with Tales protagonists. They’re never blank slates. They’re just irritatingly pure and righteous at times. That was what was refreshing about Yuri in Vesperia. He wasn’t at all. Guy was more than willing to secretly hunt down and murder defeated villains in cold blood for what he defined as the ‘greater good’. One of the reasons that Vesperia remains the high water mark for Tales IMO is that it has some interesting characters and related moral discussion around good or evil being a matter of perspective, and whether the ends justify the means.
Oh, I wasn’t thinking of the Tales games specifically – I haven’t played any of them, unless it was some forgettable one on the 360 with kids in the beginning that was so bland I can’t even remember the title.
I was just thinking of RPGs and anime in general. A lot of anime does that way too much.
Pretty much the reason I’ve enjoyed the Witcher more than Dragon Age. Geralt is a character in his own right whereas every player character in Dragon Age is just the player with a customisable face and body. It makes you want to know more.
Heck, Wolfenstein: New Order was great for exactly that reason. Unlike most other shooters, Blaskowicz was an actual person rather than an “insert player here” character. I hope having an actual character be the main character is more fulfilling to the developers as well as I certainly enjoy it more.
There’s a lot more to it than just BJ being a character in Wolfenstein though. The lead designer had a really interesting interview last year on Gamasutra about it. His philosophy is around aligning things so that the way the character feels and the way the player feels about situations are the same. So there’s never any “holy shit why did he so that” moments. So they put in stuff that deliberately is designed to get you and BJ on the same mental paths and stuff. They did the same thing in The Darkness and Riddick.
BJ was a walking cock & I enjoyed every minute of it ( @liondrive )
That… might have been Tales of Vesperia maybe? ‘Kids at the beginning’ wouldn’t be how I’d describe it though. Tales of Graces had a long prologue arc where the main characters were children but not Vesperia. You’d probably remember Vesperia. One of the characters, Repede, is a dog with a scar that smokes a pipe.
Vesperia is the one I kept for the reasons you describe, his description sounds awfully like that awful intro to graces.
Graces does sound familiar. All I remember was getting maybe an hour or so into it and putting it away out of loathing.
Tales of Graces was PS3. It’s got an amazing combat system but characters are quite juvenile and the plot’s b-tier at best.
I like it both ways ( @liondrive )
Also, I appreciate playing as both written with character protags & mindless, silent protags.
I see benefits to both & choose as the mood strikes (or more accurately as the games come out/I can afford them)
How did I miss these comments?! :* :* :*
I was worried I’d crossed a line or something
There ain’t no lines to cross with Ol’Stewie, Jim-Jim ;P
Hey cool, apparently there’s a TV adaption of Dan Simmons’ Hyperion books in the works.
For some reason I read that as a TAY adaptation; figured alexpants or kermitron had gotten bored at work again =p
All done with finger puppets.
This is TAY remember…
http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puppetry_of_the_Penis
I haven’t read Hyperion but I skimmed the synopsis on Wikipedia and feel like I can give it a pretty good go.
It is the year 2775. Earth pornography has dominated and subsequently destroyed the internet as we know it. In a bid to keep information flowing, humanity has developed powerful fusion generations that harness the kinetic energy of planetary orbits.
In just 24 hours the planets will align, causing a temporal feedback loop that will unmake all that has been made, and only SERGEANT DIRK STEELE, a hardened Space Marine with a dark past and questionable ancestry can stop it. WITH HIS FISTS.
Ok I’m going to be honest, I didn’t skim the entire article. I saw something about “farcasters” and “WorldWeb” and felt I pretty much had the gist of it.
I almost missed this!
DIRK STEELES FLEE
Slow Fridays make Red something something
Feelin fine?
DON’T MIND IF I DO!
*kicks back to relax, falls through window*
Hi David, I’m Grampa.
Can you key cars in GTA yet?
Seems like an awesome feature.
No, there’s a line even Rockstar won’t cross.
It could be followed by annoyed npcs you could either watch from cover or punch in the face.
It’d be great 😀
If an NPC keyed my car in GTA I would find a way to tie his body to the back of my car then head to the nearest freeway and not stop till the rope snapped.
Not that I’m projecting my feelings of real-world keying into the game. No sir, not one bit.
As someone who had my then three-week old car keyed by some fucking asshole, I think that this approach would be far too lenient. They might survive.
Ah, the keying of cars… costs the owner $1000 to fix up in the auto-shop, and the insurance will have a $900 excess. Starts a chain of missions around breaking into nearby shops to obtain their CCTV footage, followed by finding and torturing the culprit to death, which culminates in a heist that allows you to rob and bankrupt the insurance company, allowing you to make one fucktillion dollars on their nearest competitor’s stocks. Gaming as wish-fulfilment!
THIS
Is anyone else unable to join a game on the steam monster game? I always get the same error of being unable to join a game, almost immediately.
Was getting that error all day, then finally I was able to join a game that @quiz_b was in because it was level 9. So basically until it’s fixed you’ll just have to keep trying and hope that someone on your friends list is in game and under level 10.
Yeah I jumped in on your game as well monkey =p
Huzzah!
Yay! I didn’t know I had a game running until I just logged back in. I’d never seen a damn thing until level 50!
At the moment, the lowest level was 30
I think their servers have melted under the pressure of 125 million active users turning into 126 concurrent users, an increase of 116 million users.
Mine worked first go (though it was slow). Are you trying to start a game or join an existing one?
Start a game or join an existing one.
Steam Sales!
I have bought…
– Blazblue Continuum Shift
– Ultra Street Fighter IV
– XCOM: Enemy Within
Totalling $48.47USD
… I think I’m happy to leave my Summer Sale buying at that. 🙂
I have purchased
Crusader Kings II: Charlemagne
Crusader Kings II: The Song of Roland Ebook
Crusader Kings II: Way of Life
I can’t see a pattern there though.
I FOUND THE PATTERN!
You buy games with the letter E in the title.
Damn my unconscious biases.
Though I have, in the past, played a lot of Civilization V
So far I’ve bought
Tin Star
Zombie Kill of the Week – Reborn
Kung Fury: Street Rage
Chip’s Challenge 1 & 2 Bundle
Ethan: Meteor Hunter
You Must Build A Boat
Gods Will Be Watching
Pressured
Legacy of Kain Collection
Hammerwatch 4-pack
Spintires
Pixel Piracy
Shadow Warrior
Cook, Serve, Delicious! and
DLC Quest
for roughly $100AUD. Trying so hard to be good. Thankfully though, I don’t have much more money left to spend till next week. So I’m gonna hold off on buying anything else till the final day.
You Must Build A Boat
I saw this in the App store (the Apple one) and was a little interested. Tell me more.
I assume you have to build a floatation device of some kind.
Must you?
Tell me more once you play it, I mean. Which, given your Steam list, will be in 2037.
Yes I must XD
It’s a reskinned version of 10,000,000
Well more like a sequel
#Helping
What it 10,000,000? Apart from being 1 better than 9,999,999, I mean.
It’s the prequel to You Must Build A Boat
#Helping
Hey @popdart5 – I think we found Drewan.
Both the games are basically a mashup of a match-3 style game and an rpg
As you match ‘gems’ you gain resources that you can use to upgrade your hero. Attack or shield damage. In 10,000,000 the goal was to get a score of 10,000,000 in basically a dungeon crawl setting. YMBAB seems to be more of an oregon trail kinda deal with heading down the river on a boat that you upgrade.
So, to take another game that I already own, it’s Hunie Pop but with less J-Ecchi-Novel and more RPG?
That is probably an accurate description
Good enough for me. Sounds like it’ll be up Mrs B-ob’s alley. She loves her match-3. *shudder*
Uh, hate to break it to you dude…
For me, that’s good. If I had more money this week it’d probably be at least double, if not triple that by now.
Steam games aren’t like Pokemon though, you don’t have to catch them all 🙂
Don’t listen to the bad man’s lies @evilmonkey
When you let the lord Gaben into your life, your epeen is filled with steaming joy
I must have an e-vagina
This is why saving money for me is virtually impossible, I’m extremely impulsive, if I see something I want I’ll just buy it. I’ve got a metric buttload of games/movies/music/toys and stuff, but I always find it hard to resist the urge to buy more.
How’s that saying go? “He who dies with the most toys wins”.
This isn’t how you save money either, friend! Thank you. 😀
No worries man. It was only a coupla bucks.
So, uhhh, about that…
Yeah, whoops, sorry man. I meant to gift it to @beeawwb, but I realized I accidentally gifted it to you by mistake, so just disregard that.
Shit I’m getting sloppy, that’s the second time I’ve done that in about a month.
Wait, aren’t we the same person?
Dammit, more gifts isn’t necessarily the answer.
Thank you for the gift. Greatly appreciated. You are a scholar and a gentleman.
Saw it was on your wishlist and it was only 5 bucks, I hope you enjoy it man.
I’ll buy Blackwell Epiphany if it goes better than 60% off, otherwise I’ll buy it for 60% off at the end.
I’m planning on buying Uplink which is currently like 85% off and $2, I just need to spend some time in front of the PC once I get a budget sorted.
Uplink! \o/
I love that game! I played it when it first came out, remember having to buy it direct from the devs in some convoluted fashion, but the tension…. man, beeps have never felt so scary to me. Such a rush. Also plays on pretty much any system. I remember playing it again on my eeePC (Netbooks, remember them?) and pretty much any device anywhere.
Making me want to play again.
Haha, I still have my Uplink CD! I thought it was novel that it came in what was in those days considered a DVD case, direct from the UK.
Bought it again on Steam ages ago because it’s good to have things in a portable digital library and not worry about the location of physical discs.
Yeah, I’ve still got my CD around… somewhere. I’ve bought it on multiple digital platforms though, so much easier to just right-click Steam and choose “install”
Metro: Malibu Stacy Collection.
So far I have bought Sir, you are being hunted for $2
I’ll check with Mrs Tigs to see if she is happy to start BorderTales before the last episode is out and if she is I’ll get that for $12.50
On my will get at the end of the sale if I have money left are Lili: Child of Geos, Rollers of the realm and Project Temporality. I’ll also get hand of fate.
Do I make American Pork Rib racks, Chicken Enchiladas or some sort of Roast Lamb Leg for dinner?
They all sound so damn good.
Roast Lamb Leg always wins.
Salad
You don’t win friends with.
You know what I’m going to vote for.
Jimu’s salad because you have no soul?
This is true, you don’t make friends with salad.
Roast Lamb on a bed of Chicken Enchiladas with a side of American Pork Rib
Enchiladas!
I’m doing roasted pork chops with mustard sauce.
That sounds good. I’m doing pasta with (frozen) prawns and (frozen) spinach and a creamy sauce.
Nice. My chops have come up good, but the potatoes are taking for-fucking-ever to cook, which is annoying.
The latest in the Alice saga: the body corporate voted down our request to keep her, 5-2. No reason given and the law on this says that requests can’t be unreasonably denied.
Looks like it’s time to contest this, once again.
🙁
My Lego Jurassic World key has finally arrived, and it’s only going to take 1 day to download.
*sigh*
So, a main server in Australia blew up and the internet was down for the entire nation. Seems to be back up and running.
That was a scary couple of hours. I was actually contemplating going outside and socializing.
Interesting. I’ve been connected to the internet all day long.
The extremes some people will go to in order to avoid steam sales
That would probably explain a lot @pupp3tmast3r
It would if I had 0 internet; but I could still get on steam; play online on my pc; stream music; and even helldivers on the ps4 worked.
Edit: Christ I’m so hungover. *seedy face*
Yeah, but it probably did not actually take all the Internets down for long, just shuffled it to other servers, increasing the load and thus lag.
Want to watch something tonight, but nothing on Netflix, I need the bandwidth to download Lego Jurassic World. Picked a few out of my collection. Not sure which one I’m in the mood to watch though. My choices are Anchorman, Anchorman 2, Pacific Rim, The Equalizer, or Batman Begins. I have seen all of them before though.
Pacific Rim.
Too late, I’ve already gone with Anchorman.
Fine, make the wrong choice then.
😛He already made a decision! He doesn’t need to revisit it to make the wrong one when he’s already made the right one.
Oh no…
Someone talk me out of buying the Telltale Collection…
Edit: Aww, I can’t play the minigame either 🙁
Um… maybe flip a coin…
Heads is buy, tails is don’t buy.
Best 2 out of 3 decides it.
Head, Tails, Heads.
Looks like I’m buying it :-p
I’ve had Back to the Future and Monkey Island on my wishlist for a while anyway, and The Wolf Among Us is meant to be good right?
The Wolf Among Us is fantastic. I liked it so much more then The Walking Dead.
It’s my favourite of the Telltale game so far, is Wolf.
Borderlands then Wolf for me. Wolf looks the best though, by far.
I finally Platnumed Binding of Isaac rebirth. This is the only game I have ever gone out of my way to Platnum. (I’ve also Platnumed Sleeping Dogs but that’s because when I finished the game I only had 1 achievement to go).
Yay! \o/
I just sold some cards! \o/ +$0.54!!
Then sold a bunch of TF2 and Dota 2 stuff. I never play those games anyway. I’m up $2.00!
Ah crap, forgot all about Bloodstained. Now gotta make a purchase decision or else I’ll miss it once I’ve woken up again.
After some Splatooning I decided to pledge after all >_>
Excellent choice, all those extra tiers are added, SO MANY EXTRA GAME MODES
God dammit i caved! Couldn’t help myself, had to pick up Homework Remastered on the sale… Ended up playing it until waaaaay too late last night… Damn it’s a good game!
Most people go out of their way to avoid Homework.
God dammit autocorrect XD
Screw it, leaving it as is!
Also Plug And Play WTF?
I had no idea what was going on… At all… But somehow I enjoyed myself… I guess? 😛
You sure you didn’t mean Homeworlk instead?
That’s it. Money’s all gone. DAMN YOU GABE! DAMN YOU TO HELL!
Only day 2. That’s impressive.
Only had a fraction of the available funds I had last time.
So i was on the crunchyroll website reading their latest news, 1 of them was about k-on going to be on abc3, the yanks do not have the pleasure of watching it & some of them were stunned by the fact that it was going to be on the same night as madoka magica (this is from the same channel that airs dr who), plus i predict that k-on albums will now be sold at abc shops, so yeah, jealous yanks not getting k-on that airs on the same night as 1 of thee most depressing anime ever on a kids channel
I played Crusader Kings II as Charlemagne until half past 2. Pretty sure that I’m actually hungover from that.
Probably going to play again this afternoon
Did you shed the blood of the Saxon men?
A couple. Having consolidated Francia, Saxony and Sorbia are next on the list
Make sure you listen to this as you go:
Too soon, too soon
10.5 hours until Le Mans 2015 starts! \o/
\o/ Is going be goooooood
Can a piece of fabric become static-y after being washed?
This buff (Polyester Microfibre) was completely fine before, but ever since I ran it under some water to wash it, it gets crazy static whenever it rubs against my hair.
I’ve compared it to some other buffs (same material) that I haven’t washed yet and their not conducting any sort of electricity at all. What could have caused this one to get all staticy and how can I prevent it? 🙁
I was warned recently about putting my climbing shirt in the drier, being told it would get all static. And it did.
Dunno if it’s made of the same stuff or not, but it might be. I’ll ask my sister when she’s around though, she has tonnes of the things. Just got a whole bunch the other day actually.
I just hand washed mine under a tap and let it hang to dry, really strange that it suddenly became static though 🙁
She said that’s weird and that you’re weird.
Ok maybe I added the last bit but it’s still weird.
Here – try this.
http://shop.coles.com.au/online/national/allendale-anti-static-spray
My legs aren’t that sexy 🙁
But they could be!
All you need is Allendale Anti Static Statique Spray!
Then train harder!
It’s World Gin Day, and here I am at home with no gin.
Oh no, NotAGin!
#everypageispage6
I thank you for bringing this to my attention.
Especially since we have some cucumber in the fridge for once!
I have cucumber! I have lemons! I think I’ll run over to Dan Murphy’s and get something nice and a bottle of Capi tonic.
Nooooo, just checked the fridge outside and we only have stupid crap Coles brand tonic water 🙁
And a bajillion bottles of Schweppes soda water. WHY.
Why would you ruin gin like that? What’s wrong with you?
Adding lime or lemon to Hendricks is what ruins it!
Although not as much as using soda water instead of tonic 😛 Blech.
But… It is soda water you use? Gin, Tonic syrup, soda water and a lime wedge.
What are you doing?
I dunno, I was just thinking of that time when that bar used plain soda water and it was awful. Was it Cake’s birthday? Something like that.
Haven’t heard of tonic syrup before, other than some sodastream flavouring. Wasn’t sure that’d count though.
I’m being facetious.
Soda water instead of tonic is awful, yes. Tonic syrup is a bit wanky but genuinely is worlds better tasting. Very rare to get it anywhere however. I get mine from below mentioned site. And no, flavour syrup doesn’t count.
I have Four Pillars and some tonic syrup. Add a lime wedge and I’m good to go.
Tonic syrup? Where do you get that from?
http://www.onlybitters.com/tonics/
o_O
*throws wallet at laptop*
I ended up with The West Winds, Capi and lemon. *bliss*
New Super Smash Bros characters have apparently been leaked.
The characters are apparently Roy and Ryu. Not really sure how to feel about Roy, on one hand I think Smash Bros has enough of both sword users and FE characters but on the other hand I mained Roy in the previous smash bros. Also, as ridiculous as it sounds to have Ryu as a character in Smash bros it really does work.Ryu as in Street Fighter Ryu?Yup! The very same.
EDIT: Here’s a video (not sure how long it will last for though)
I would be SO all over that.
Okay, folks.
Ten minutes until Le Mans 2015 kicks off.
I’ll be up pretty much all night, and I’ll give you all hourly updates of the top three cars in each class (LMP1, LMP2. GTE Pro, and GTE Amateur)
Get ready for he drop of the tricolor.
You can also listen to live coverage on Radio Le Mans at radiolemans(dot)com.
Played more dirk seales.
Beat the hydra and got the crown of dusk, grabbed the seal to open up the area with all the high-end mobs that drop tons of souls but didn’t open that yet. Went to farm up a Balder Side Sword to start getting it ready to turn into a magic weapon. Went and killed the Hellkite Drake on the way through as well. Very first balder knight I fought in the Parish dropped one \o/. Went down to the lower part of the burg and fought the Capra Demon. Guy’s still a tremendous asshole. Got him on the third go – just needed to get past him and his stupid fucking dogs and get up the stairs and then it was easy, managed to get him to stand underneath me rather than going up the stairs so I could drop a couple of Great Heavy Soul Arrows on him and murderize the fucker. Hate that guy so much. Then I went down to the depths and cleared it out, beat the Gaping Dragon on second go. First time I summoned Solaire to fight with me and he actually made it harder, also the AI started repeatedly doing that big slam thing. Second go, I didn’t even take a hit. It sort of just stood side on and let me kill it. Was odd.Didn’t have much luck getting green titanite yet, only have 1 shard but upgraded the sword. Also rescued the pyromancy guy, got a glove & combustion and upgraded my glove to +8 so now I can combust motherfuckers for like 500 damage. Good backup for the sword at least.
Next up I think I’ll clear out the Bell Gargoyles then start thinking about descending into Blighttown and killing Quelaag. Also could go beat the Moonlight Butterfly since it should be trivial now. Then I guess it’s Sen’s Fortress to rescue Big Hat Logan and get some radder spells.
Green titanite
Easiest way to farm it early is the bonfire in the Sewers. Run out and kill all the slimes in the hallway, use bonfire, repeat. Every 2 to 3 runs will net you a shard. Doesn’t take long to max out your weapon on shards.Yeah I know about that, I mentioned I’d tried to farm it without any success. Got one large titanite and one green titanite from about 10 runs.
How much soft humanity have you got?
As in the items or the number? Got lots of liquid, but only 1-2 numerical. I had a lot more at one point but lost a whole ton when I died on the Capra Demon and then died again going through lower undead burg to get to him when the game spazzed out and got me killed.
The number. If you have 10 it quite significantly raises your item discovery. Means drop rates go up.
Have to work all day today :-/
Found live stream of Le Mans \o/
Have a coffee \o/
No actual work to do except for monitoring \o/
Today might just be ok
I just watched a complete playthrough of the entire Hatoful Boyfriend storyline. (including the Hurtful Boyfriend epilogue)
Holy fuck.
Holy fuck.
Holy shitting fuck on a duck.
That was… intense. And… long, and…. holy fuck. Holy front cunt on a pig runt by the seafront. I have very few words.
That seems a lot for very few
Although if you take out the repeated words, it does kinda makes sense…
Alright guys, so I decided I am not making 720-something bookmarks and I’m not making 151 bookmarks so I’ll only be making certain pokemon ones. I already have the Eevees and the starters, I will probably also make Mew two, Articuno, Zaptos and Moltres. Mew, maybe.
Metapod cannot be made into a bookmark as it is too simple a design to translate well.
http://imgur.com/a/MxBWL Here’s a link to those already done so people can see the style
Here’s a list of pokemon
http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/List_of_Pok%C3%A9mon_by_National_Pok%C3%A9dex_number
Oh, yeah.
I remembered why I love Blazblue so much.
Thanks, Steam sale. 😀
Now if only the PC ports control setup wasn’t so shitty. 🙁
Id like to ask people what game from consoles past they would love to see announced as a remake during any of the E3 conferences. In the last week I’ve been re-watching walkthroughs of Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic and, given there has been movement with the ownership of the Star Wars brand I would really enjoy a fresh take on what is pretty widely seen as the best Star Wars game ever made. Whilst I wouldnt want too much change to the graphics which were beautiful in their simplicity, it would be amazing to see the game played in the bigger modern day engines and see less load screens etc like what Bungie & 343 did with the Master Chief Collection last year. Realistic chances are small but a man can hope…
Unrealistic expectations:
– Crash Bandicoot
– Spyro
– Final Fantasy VII
Full remakes and / or reboots though, not just remasters.
Spyro would be awesome if it was the old one where you had to free the dragons that had been turned to stone.
I would love to see no remakes and events full of announcements of brand new games to be perfectly honest…
I think thats going to happen regardless, but there is always going to be/needs to be an old school favourite for older gamers to maintain the connection & enjoyment of gaming
Wonderboy VII.
I’d like a fresh take on what is widely seen as the best Star Wars game ever made… TIE Fighter.
So last night playing GTA Online I discovered the best part of the entire game. TV. Namely Republican Space Rangers and Jack Howitzer.
How has Netflix not commissioned entire series for these shows?! My god, they’re the best TV shows I’ve ever watched
Republican space rangers both in GTA IV and GTA V is absolutely amazing!
Kung Fu Rainbow Lazerforce is still my absolute favourite though
It occurs to me I should stop playing a game where all I end up doing is watching TV in game 😛
Oh, god… now I’m mulling over whether or not to get GTA V on PC…
Someone please help before I make a decision I may regret…
EDIT: Bit the bullet and got it for $63.67 off of CDKeyExpress. It’s a Steam Key.
Do you have it on other platforms? Do you dislike that kind of game? Will you never get around to playing it?
If yes to any, then not worth it.
If no to all, then sure: it’s pretty good.
Had it on PS3, but gave it to a friend along with my PS3…
So… Squenix E3 hype video:
Based off the music, I predict they’re going to pull a FF7-on-PS4 style troll with Chrono Trigger. 🙁
I’m waiting for them to pull out a developer from the SNES days that people love, make them shuffle onto stage, and then tell the audience that they’ll have something really exciting to show at TGS 2063.
Um, I just heard a rumour that Batman might have broke street date. Just a heads up.
YYYYYYAAAA oh shit I knew I forgot to pre-order something.
No, wait, that’s right – I pre-ordered Origins and it was crappy, so I held off.
Bring on the reviews.
*Breathing Intensifies mainly due to being perched high up on a gargoyle*
Smash TAYers, Roy and Ryu should be available within 30 minutes!
😀
Ehh, I’ll just wait for the GOTY edition.